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Judge William A. Knight's standing omnibus discovery order for Criminal District Court No. 2 (May 27, 2025): the State may release medical records, grand jury records including grand jury testimony, DFPS records, criminal histories, juvenile records (if previously released by the presiding juvenile judge) and prior juror service to defense counsel without a formal motion; the State may withhold if it requests a formal hearing; defense counsel is barred from disclosing or repurposing protected information and must return or destroy the records at the conclusion of the case.
Texas > Tarrant County > Criminal District Court No. 2 — all pending cases; prosecutors and defense counsel.
"The Court hereby authorizes the State of Texas, in all cases pending in this Court, to release the following records to the counsel for the defense without the necessity of a formal presentation of a motion to release the records: MEDICAL RECORDS; GRAND JURY RECORDS (INCLUDING GRAND JURY TESTIMONY); DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES RECORDS; CRIMINAL HISTORIES; JUVENILE RECORDS (IF PRE
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (1 page, 1,330 chars) read in full; quoted verbatim; filed 5/27/2025 (No. 3759). Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed April 6, 2020 by the thirteen civil presiding judges), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/07/2023): the 25-page limit on motions and briefs with formatting floors — the instrument the individual courts' policies cite as the amended page-limit rule.
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