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Judge postpones decision on Allison Settle’s deferred-adjudication requests, orders evaluations and narrows GPS restrictions
Summary
Judge Stephanie Boyd scheduled a follow-up on Allison Settle’s deferred-adjudication applications, ordered a presentence investigation and substance evaluations, referred the case to felony drug court consideration, and allowed pretrial GPS tracking Monday-to-Friday with a curfew of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Judge Stephanie Boyd, 187th District, told the court she would delay ruling on Allison Settle’s applications for deferred adjudication and set several evaluations and a return date.
“I'm going to request the PSI, a TAP evaluation, MICMIOF evaluation, and a referral to felony drug court,” Judge Boyd said; the court set the next appearance for July 28 for a decision on Settle’s applications.
Defense counsel Will Brooks asked the court to prioritize a TAP (treatment assessment program) screening and other evaluations. The court directed pretrial services to arrange the evaluations and ordered that the cause numbers run concurrently.
The hearing also included a request from Settle’s attorney and from her pretrial officer, Genesis Ramirez, to relax the GPS monitoring to tracking only. Officer Genesis Ramirez told the court Settle had consistently provided medical documentation and communicated about appointments. Judge Boyd said she was concerned about the risks of loosening monitoring but granted a limited change.
“I'll do tracking, but it'll be tracking with the curfew,” Judge Boyd said, and the court set a curfew allowing movement from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for work and appointments; the judge directed the probation/pretrial officer to prepare the written order and implement it immediately.
The transcript shows the court also instructed Settle to make appointments required by the evaluations and to report to probation as directed. The state recorded that it opposed deferred adjudication and asked the court to assess punishment caps consistent with plea paperwork; the court did not adopt a final sentence in the excerpted record.
