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County Courts at Law Criminal Cases Pending Transfer Procedure (CC1 and CC2)

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Administrative OrdersCounty Courts at Law Criminal Cases Pending Transfer Procedure — Transfer Procedure CC1 and CC2 (Travis County) — TOPICs reg. doc 513.

Summary

A procedure adopted by the Travis County Courts at Law judges for transferring pending criminal cases from County Courts at Law No. 1 and No. 2 (which primarily handle civil cases) to the County Courts at Law that handle criminal matters, by reassignment in rotation.

Applies to

Applies to the transfer of criminal cases pending in Travis County Courts at Law No. 1 and No. 2. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

CRIMINAL CASES PENDING TRANSFER PROCEDURE On February 11, 2005, the County Courts at Law Judges, in a collaborative effort adopted the following procedure to handle the transfer of criminal cases currently pending in Travis County Courts at Law No. 1 and No. 2, which primarily handle civil cases to the County Courts at Law that handle the criminal matters. ▪ Any pending active criminal cases in County Court at Law #1 and County Court at Law No. 2 will be reassigned in rotation in the County Courts at Law No. 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. ▪ Except that any cause where there is a pending case in another court is reassigned to the pending court. SIGNED 16 [handwritten] day of February 2005. [signature] DAVID PHILLIPS, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW #1, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS [signature] ORLINDA NARANJO, LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW #2, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS [signature] DAVID CRAIN, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW #3, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS [signature] MIKE DENTON, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW #4, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS [signature] NANCY HOHENGARTEN, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW #5, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS [signature] JAN BRELAND, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW #6, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS [signature] ELISABETH EARLE, JUDGE, COUNTY COURT AT LAW #7, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS Prepared by: Judge Orlinda Naranjo, Local Administrative Judge, Travis County 2/10/05 [A partly cut-off stamp runs along the bottom edge of the page]

Source of truth

CRIMINAL CASES PENDING TRANSFER PROCEDURE On February 11, 2005, the County Courts at Law Judges, in a collaborative effort adopted the following procedure to handle the transfer of criminal cases currently pending in Travis County Courts at Law No. 1 and No. 2, which primarily handle civil cases to the County Courts at Law that handle the criminal matters. ▪ Any pending active criminal cases in Co

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
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Last verified: September 21, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read). Bound to Travis County (criminal). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 9989f334c4dc..., 1 page(s), digital layer that failed the machine checks; text taken from the layer 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]