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The 229th District Court's plea-paperwork protocol: the State e-mails defense counsel the documents needing the defendant's signature or fingerprints (admonishments, addendum, pleas of true, video-plea requests, appeal certifications, judgments, community-supervision conditions) and e-files the rest; defense counsel obtains the defendant's signatures and fingerprints — in custody or, for out-of-custody defendants, at the probation office the same or next day — and brings the documents to the court for signature.
Applies to plea proceedings in the 229th District Court sitting in Starr County (the court also sits in the other two counties of the district and posts the same protocol there); posted on the county's 229th District Court page.
PLEA PAPERWORK PROTOCOL-229th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT State Responsibilities: I. Email documents to Defense counsel that require Defendant’s signature OR fingerprints a. Documents should already have State signatures where needed b. Documents include: i. Plea Admonishments ii. Plea Addendum iii. Plea of True on MTR/MTA iv. Joint Request for Plea by Video Teleconference v. Trial Court’s Certificati
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-10 from the county-site PDF in BenchPath custody (native text published as extracted after whitespace normalization). Joined to Judge Baldemar Garza (the current 229th judge). The posted copy is undated.
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