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187th District Court opens docket, warns attorneys of strict rules as jury trial begins
Summary
Judge Stephanie Boyd opened the court docket, reminded attorneys and defendants of courtroom procedures and announced a jury trial schedule and related case continuances.
Judge Stephanie Boyd, presiding judge of the 187th District Court in Bexar County, opened a combined Monday–Tuesday docket and warned attorneys and defendants to follow courtroom procedures as a jury trial was set to begin.
The judge told attorneys they must wait until the court is on the record — announced by the style “State vs. [Defendant]” — before approaching the bench, to avoid disrupting proceedings and to allow the court reporter to keep accurate records. She instructed counsel to confer with clients before requesting a file and to remain in the courtroom after requesting an interpreter because interpreters can take several minutes to arrive. "When I'm on the record, you will know I'm on the record because I will have called the style of the case," she said.
The reminder came as the court prepared multiple plea deadlines, jury-trial settings and resets across the docket. The judge emphasized that inmates must be ready when their names are called because of limited security escorts, and warned that failure to appear when called could result in arrest warrants. She also asked attorneys to consult with probation staff — identified in court as Ms. Abrams — on cases involving probation issues so probation’s input will be available at hearings.
The court set several near-term plea-deadline and trial dates during the session and repeatedly asked deputies to bring particular defendants dressed for trial. Counsel and defendants were routinely given short resets to review newly produced discovery or to consider offers; where a case could not be resolved by the stated plea deadline, the judge said the matter would move toward a quick turnaround jury trial.
The remainder of the hearing consisted of many individual case settings, plea submissions and discovery acknowledgments; in several matters the court set plea-deadline dates in June and July and ordered in-court appearances when discovery issues remained unresolved.
The court session closed with routine calendar calls and reminders that parties would return at 1:30 p.m. for follow-up matters.
