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Court at Law No. 3 transfers funds to cover psychiatric evaluations after district attorney filings
Summary
Comal County Court at Law No. 3 approved line-item transfers to buy a replacement laptop and to cover court-ordered psychiatric evaluations for jail-release cases; judges and the district attorney's office said state statute requires two evaluations and current practice uses psychiatrists, costing several thousand dollars each.
Comal County's Court at Law No. 3 on Thursday approved two line-item transfers: $1,900 from the visiting-judges account to noncapital equipment for a new laptop, and a second transfer to provide funds for two psychiatric evaluations ordered for certain jail-release cases.
Judge Wigginton explained the laptop transfer: he was informed by IT that his regular laptop needed…
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