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Judge Boyd’s morning docket: pleas, sentencing, competency evaluations and warrants across multiple cases
Summary
The 187th District Court processed a large docket with multiple plea acceptances and sentencing orders, firm restitution deadlines, competency-evaluation referrals, jury-trial dates, and issuance of judge’s warrants for absent defendants. Several matters were continued for plea deadlines or PSI/TAP evaluations in December and January.
Judge Stephanie Boyd worked through a congested morning docket, taking pleas, setting firm deadlines and ordering evaluations for several defendants while also issuing judicial warrants for multiple absentees.
The court repeatedly told litigants to sign reset forms and warned that defendants who did not answer the docket would face arrest: “When I call the docket, you need to stand and let me know you’re here. Otherwise, I’m gonna assume you’re not here and a warrant may be issued for your arrest,” the judge told the courtroom at the start of the session.
Over the course of the morning the court:
- Accepted…
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