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Judge Stephanie Boyd issues sentences, sets bonds and grants pleas in 187th District docket
Summary
At a multi-hour docket in the 187th District Court, Judge Stephanie Boyd accepted pleas, denied one deferred-adjudication request, imposed sentences and set bond conditions in several criminal cases, including a 10-year suspended sentence for Ulysses Benitez and a six-year sentence after a revocation for Matthew Baggs.
Judge Stephanie Boyd presided over a full criminal docket that included guilty pleas, bond hearings and sentencing on multiple cases. Major outcomes included the court denying an application for deferred adjudication and imposing a 10-year sentence (suspended and probated) for Ulysses Gloria Benitez; a 6-year prison sentence for Matthew Charles Baggs after a finding of violation; a 15-month state-jail sentence for Charles Claycomb; and a grant of deferred adjudication with conditions for Jason Moore.
The docket matters because the decisions affect defendants’ custody status, program eligibility and, in some cases, immigration consequences and access to community-based supervision. Several decisions included conditions intended to address substance use, parenting or housing issues and imposed no-contact restrictions where family violence was alleged.
The court found Ulysses Gloria Benitez guilty after accepting a stipulation of evidence and denied his application for deferred adjudication. Judge Boyd sentenced Benitez to 10 years in prison, suspended and probated for 10 years, ordered a $2,000 fine to be…
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