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County-wide criminal discovery standing order (No. 3393) signed July 16, 2024 by the district judges giving preference to criminal cases, the criminal district judges and the statutory county criminal judges of Tarrant County: in all pending cases prosecutors may release medical records, grand-jury records, DFPS records, criminal-history information and juvenile records to defense counsel without a motion to release (and may withhold them on a successful motion); defense counsel must keep control of released records, may not reproduce or share them — including with the defendant or the defendant's family — without a court order, and must return or destroy them when the case, including any postconviction proceedings, is finally disposed of.
Texas > Tarrant County > all pending cases in the signing criminal courts (Criminal District Courts Nos. 1–4; 213th, 297th, 371st, 372nd, 396th, 432nd, 485th District Courts; County Criminal Courts Nos. 1–10) — prosecutors and defense counsel. Court-specific omnibus discovery orders (CDC No. 1, CDC No. 2, 213th, 371st, 372nd, 396th) are composed separately.
[File stamp: FILED, TARRANT COUNTY, 7/17/2024 1:59PM, THOMAS A. WILDER, DISTRICT CLERK, WJ] STANDING ORDER REGARDING CERTAIN DISCOVERY MATTERS The District Court Judges Giving Preference to Criminal Cases, the Criminal District Court Judges, and the Statutory County Criminal Court Judges of Tarrant County who have signed this Standing Order hereby ORDER that in all pending cases, the attorneys representing the state are authorized to release the following records to defense counsel without the need for a motion to release: (1) medical records, (2) grand-jury records, (3) Texas Department of Family and Protective Services records, (4) criminal-history information, and (4) juvenile records. The undersigned courts GRANT the attorneys representing the state permission to withhold releasing evidence in the above categories if the attorneys representing the state file a successful motion for such relief. The undersigned courts further ORDER that in all pending cases, defense counsel: (1) shall maintain control of all records released under this order; (2) shall not reproduce or otherwise release the records to any other person or entity, including the defendant or the defendant's family, unless otherwise authorized by a court order; and (3) shall return or destroy the disclosed records once the case is finally disposed of, which includes any postconviction proceedings. This Standing Order is subject to modification by court order. Signed July 11, 2024. [signature] HONORABLE ELIZABETH H. BEACH, CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 1 [signature] HONORABLE WAYNE F. SALVANT, CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 2 [signature] HONORABLE DOUGLAS A. ALLEN, CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 3 [signature] HONORABLE ANDY PORTER, CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 4 [signature] HONORABLE CHRIS WOLFE, 213th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE DAVID C. HAGERMAN, 297th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE RYAN HILL, 371st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE JULIE LUGO, 372nd JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE GEORGE GALLAGHER, 396th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE RUBEN GONZALEZ, JR., 432nd JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE STEVEN JUMES, 485th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE DAVID E. COOK, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 1 [signature] HONORABLE CAREY F. WALKER, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 2 [signature] HONORABLE BOB MCCOY, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 3 [signature] HONORABLE DEBORAH NEKHOM, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 4 [signature] HONORABLE BRAD CLARK, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 5 [signature] HONORABLE RANDI HARTIN, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 6 [signature] HONORABLE ERIC STARNES, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 7 [signature] HONORABLE CHARLES VANOVER, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 8 [signature] HONORABLE BRIAN BOLTON, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 9 [signature] HONORABLE TRENT LOFTIN, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 10 [Running footer: STANDING ORDER REGARDING DISCOVERY, Page 1 of 3 / Page 2 of 3 / Page 3 of 3]
[File stamp: FILED, TARRANT COUNTY, 7/17/2024 1:59PM, THOMAS A. WILDER, DISTRICT CLERK, WJ] STANDING ORDER REGARDING CERTAIN DISCOVERY MATTERS The District Court Judges Giving Preference to Criminal Cases, the Criminal District Court Judges, and the Statutory County Criminal Court Judges of Tarrant County who have signed this Standing Order hereby ORDER that in all pending cases, the attorneys rep
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (3 pages) read through the vision lane 2026-09-05; operative text quoted verbatim (the order numbers its fifth category "(4)" — reproduced as printed); the 21 signature blocks identify the signing courts. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 42b0e40bbfa9..., 3 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.