The court heard status updates Tuesday in 25 CCR 243898, State of Texas v. Lu Yang Schulich, and the judge said the state will continue attempts to contact the complaining witness with the aim of resolving the case before the next status hearing on Oct. 2.

The judge said, "I know where it stands. The state is going to continue with their con attempted contact with the complaining witness. Hopefully, we can get this case to resolution maybe before the next status hearing on 10/02." The judge set no other deadlines in court.

Why it matters: Under the prosecutor's stated procedure, plea discussions and offers often wait until required victim outreach efforts are complete; the court's timeline frames how long the defense and prosecution must await further action.

Prosecutor Mister Vincent told the court the office planned a "final round of attempted outreach to the victim by the end of this week" and, if that failed, would "be sending a letter next week" to complete required outreach. Defense counsel (Mister Tang) reported he had tried to obtain updates from the prosecutor and that the prosecutor had made multiple phone-call attempts.

The court also swore an interpreter, Johanna Hu, to translate between English and Mandarin for the proceeding. The interpreter told the judge, "the interpreter makes up a statement here that I did not add any, interpretation or took off any interpretation. It was the state prosecutor said that defense attorney was, saying lack of communication. That's what I interpret. So I did not alter, add, took off, or change any of the statement, made by the prosecutor."

Discussion versus decision: The hearing recorded discussion and factual updates about outreach efforts; no plea or final disposition was entered. The judge directed the state to continue its outreach and set a status hearing for Oct. 2.

Additional details: Participants noted repeated phone-call attempts; the prosecutor described this as the office's internal victim-contact procedure. No statutory citations or formal orders were read into the record during the status update.

The parties were excused after the court confirmed the outreach plan.