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The 49th District Court's per-case criminal discovery order for Zapata County: fifteen working days before trial the State furnishes its witness list, the defendant's statements and recordings, and permits inspection and copying of seized items, physical evidence, exhibits, demonstrative aids, psychiatric and medical reports, business and government records, warrants and affidavits, lab and scientific results and lineups; discloses deals with cooperating witnesses, the defendant's NCIC/TCIC and Zapata County arrest record, Brady material, impeaching convictions and extraneous conduct, and transcribes grand jury testimony; both sides disclose expert witnesses twenty working days before trial; work product and witness statements are excluded until tendered at trial; compliance occurs in the State's presence at defense cost, both sides have a continuing duty to disclose, and further discovery requires a written motion under Art. 28.01.
Applies to criminal cases in the 49th District Court sitting in Zapata County (Judge Joe Lopez, chambered in Laredo), where the order is entered in each case; the Webb County edition is published on Webb County. Zapata County has no TOPICs registrations; the 49th's Zapata forms are posted by Webb County in its District & County Courts Download Center. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
CAUSE NO. ___. THE STATE OF TEXAS VS. ___ — IN THE 49th DISTRICT COURT OF ZAPATA COUNTY, TEXAS. STANDING DISCOVERY ORDER. I. The Court ORDERS that the State: 1. FURNISH to defense counsel a list of all witnesses the State may call during its case-in-chief or the punishment phases of trial at least fifteen (15) working days prior to the day this case is set for trial. Furnishing this list does not
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 from BenchPath's own-site custody copy (three pages, text layer read in full; identical to the Webb edition but for the county name in the caption and paragraph 5). The instrument is the court's form order carrying Judge Jose A. (Joe) Lopez as the presiding judge, so it is court- and judge-joined; the signature and entry date are per-case blanks, so no effective date is asserted.
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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.
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