Judge Stephanie Boyd accepts pleas, revokes supervision and issues sentences in multiple Bexar County dockets

Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court presided over a docket in which she accepted pleas, granted motions to revoke community supervision and imposed sentences and conditions in multiple criminal cases, court records and spoken rulings show.

The hearings covered a series of matters including deferred-adjudication pleas, revocation hearings and sentencing in cases involving charges from state-jail felonies to third-degree felonies and possession-with-intent allegations. Several defendants received prison terms, fines and court-ordered conditions such as no-contact orders, restitution and treatment requirements.

Among the outcomes reached at the hearing: Amarian Sullivan pleaded true to a probation violation and the court revoked community supervision and sentenced Sullivan to two years in prison on the revocation (counts to run concurrent with an earlier case). Alyssa Gonzales pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle (state jail felony) and the court sentenced her to one year in a state jail facility and a $2,000 fine with $800 restitution ordered. Abel Martinez III entered a plea that the court accepted and the judge sentenced him under a plea agreement to a six-year sentence probated for six years with conditions including 200 hours of community service, no employment as a home-health provider, and a referral to felony drug court.

In a revocation and plea sequence, April May Gonzales (also listed in related dockets as April Ramirez/Gonzales) pleaded true to violations; the court granted the motion to revoke, took a later conviction (cause number 2024CR011204) into consideration and imposed concurrent six-year prison terms in the 2021 cases referenced by the court. In a related separate indictment (2024CR011255), Judge Boyd accepted a guilty plea from April Ramirez on fraudulent possession of identifying information and sentenced her to six years in prison with a $2,000 fine, restitution and no-contact conditions to run concurrent with the 2021 convictions the court took into consideration.

Rodney Patterson Jr. pleaded no contest to multiple counts that the court found sufficient to establish guilt; the judge imposed an eight-year prison term on each listed cause number, ordered a $1,500 fine and imposed an affirmative finding of family violence with no-contact conditions. The court explicitly noted the affirmative family-violence finding and that a conviction carrying such a finding restricts possession of weapons and primary custodial designation.

Brandon Rocky Pena appeared on a motion to revoke deferred adjudication. The court found the alleged probation violation true, noted the amount and nature of drugs in the underlying stipulation, and sentenced Pena to 10 years in prison; the court also ordered restitution of $1,500 to an identified victim.

Other dispositions included acceptance of a deferred-adjudication plea and sentencing terms for a defendant identified as Joseph Isaiah Vela (the transcript identifies the defendant and reflects the court accepting a deferred adjudication application and then imposing conditions including two years of community supervision recommendations in the plea and later a three-year deferred adjudication sentence with community-service and parenting-class conditions). The court also issued a judge’s warrant and remanded Amanda Lynn Castro after she failed to appear on a PR bond setting.

Across cases the court repeatedly explained admonishments and appeal waivers on the record, accepted stipulations of testimony and admitted State’s Exhibits 1 and attachments as the basis for findings in multiple matters. Common conditions the court imposed included no-contact orders naming specific people, required TAP or other evaluations, in-custody or out-of-custody treatment referrals, parenting classes, community-service requirements and regular reporting to probation; in some dockets the court specified that certain community-service hours could be deemed satisfied by completing education or vocational certificates.

The docket also included administrative entries: requests for discovery acknowledgments, short continuances or resets, and several case-specific procedural actions (for example, transfers of probation to other jurisdictions and instructions to probation concerning field visits). The court repeatedly reminded defendants that plea agreements are recommendations that the court may accept or reject and explained statutory limits on appeals when a defendant waives appeal by plea.

The outcomes at the 187th District Court docket will be reflected in the court’s written minutes and judgment entries. The record here is based on on-the-record plea colloquies, stipulations and sentencing pronouncements captured in the hearing transcript.