187th District Court disposes of multiple felony cases: pleas, probation and revocations

Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court on Oct. 1, 2025, took pleas, imposed probation conditions and entered revocation sentences across a multi-defendant docket during a virtual session.

The docket produced a mix of outcomes: a defendant seeking deferred adjudication was given a reset to produce restitution, several defendants received suspended prison terms with probation and conditions, and at least one previously supervised defendant had community supervision revoked and was sentenced to prison.

The results matter because they alter defendants' custody status and set conditions — including restitution, drug testing and referrals to felony drug court — that will determine whether individuals remain in the community or serve prison time.

Most urgent among the cases was State of Texas v. Darwin Gomez (2023CR9393). Gomez entered a plea with punishment stipulated at 10 years in prison, a $2,000 fine and an affirmative deadly-weapon finding; the state opposed deferred adjudication. The judge paused final disposition to allow Gomez to attempt to post restitution: the court set a reset date and instructed him to return with a cashier’s check or money order made payable to the complainant. During a brief allocution Gomez said, “Completely regret everything that I ever did… I put my whole family and my wife through hardship,” and described efforts to stabilize his life, including union employment with IBEW Local 60. The transcript shows the complainant’s asserted…