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District attorney asks court for additional prosecutor amid high state-jail felony caseloads
Summary
District Attorney Josh Teaton requested a permanent ADA II position to address nearly 900 pending state-jail felony cases and a high misdemeanor trial volume; the court added one ADA II to the proposed FY2026 budget, funded partly by holding a vacant clerk position.
District Attorney Josh Teaton asked the commissioners court on Tuesday to approve an additional assistant district attorney (ADA II) to handle a heavy caseload of state-jail felonies and filed misdemeanors, citing case counts and comparative workload data. After discussion and a short staff calculation, the court approved adding the requested ADA II to the proposed FY2026 budget and offsetting part of the cost by removing a vacant clerk position that the DA had offered to forgo. Teaton said the office currently has roughly 896 pending state-jail felony cases, including 308 in screening, and about 2,978 filed…
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