Criminal Case Assignment and Docket Control Order AO26-0828… — Van Zandt County, TX · BenchPath

Criminal Case Assignment and Docket Control Order AO26-0828 - vacating Order AO23-0424 (294th District Court, Van Zandt County; August 28, 2026)

High confidence· verified September 20, 2026Case ManagementCriminal Case Assignment and Docket Control Order, No. AO26-0828, 294th District Court of Van Zandt County, Texas, August 28, 2026. TOPICs registration 3107 (Van Zandt County).

Summary

Order of the presiding judge of the 294th District Court: the joint Criminal Case Assignment and Docket Control Order AO23-0424 of April 24, 2023 (294th District Court and Van Zandt County Court at Law) is vacated, and all criminal cases filed in Van Zandt County on or after August 28, 2026 are to be filed into the courts of Van Zandt County in accordance with the Constitution and laws of Texas. The order's recitals state the court's reason in its own words; they are reproduced in the text and not characterised here.

Applies to

Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Van Zandt County > the 294th District Court. Criminal cases filed in Van Zandt County on or after August 28, 2026. The order is signed by the judge of the 294th District Court alone; the order it vacates (AO23-0424, April 24, 2023) had been entered jointly with the County Court at Law and is not in the TOPICs registry.

Source of truth

IN THE 294TH DISTRICT COURT OF VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS CRIMINAL CASE ASSIGNMENT AND DOCKET CONTROL ORDER WHEREAS, the presiding judge of the 294th District Court and the presiding judge of the Van Zandt County Court at Law entered Criminal Case Assignment and Docket Control Order AO23-0424 on April 24, 2023, for the primary purpose of managing the court dockets in a fair, just, equitable and eco

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 24, 2026
Effective date: August 28, 2026
Last verified: September 20, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr10-p2-2026-09-19

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/3107.pdf (application/pdf, 31574 bytes, sha256 2382e047d79ff4dd2fcdb0f97063ad3ba84ba9ec6eb5dc000c79d50fffe754e2; 1 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. One-page scan read by eye; typed from the page and diffed against an independent OCR pass. The order numbers are read as 'AO' + year: AO23-0424 (vacated) and AO26-0828 (this order, printed at the foot of the page). The vacated order AO23-0424 is not among Van Zandt County's TOPICs registrations and its text is not in BenchPath custody; what assignment scheme it set is therefore not stated here. [judge-procedure lane 2026-09-20: attached to Chris Martin, the sitting judge of the 294th District Court (Van Zandt County), who signed/issued this instrument.]