Judge Boyd hears pleas, revocations and sentences in Bexar County docket; multiple defendants ordered to treatment or prison
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Summary
At a full docket before Judge Stephanie Boyd, the court processed pleas, revocation motions and sentencing decisions across dozens of cases. Notable outcomes included a two-year prison sentence after revocation, amended treatment-focused conditions in several probation revocation matters, and bond settings for two separate cause numbers.
SAN ANTONIO — Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court convened a lengthy docket call in Bexar County on Feb. 10, 2026, during which the court recorded pleas, reviewed discovery, heard witness testimony, and issued sentences or amended supervision conditions in multiple cases.
The court handled a range of matters including competency and mental-health evaluations, motions to withdraw counsel, plea-deadline resets, revocation hearings and sentencing. Early in the session the court scheduled an updated evaluation and return date for James Lloyd after jail staff reported behavioral outbursts; the court ordered the evaluation and set a recall to consider placement in a state cognitive/ISF unit.
In one of the session's most consequential rulings, the court revoked deferred adjudication and sentenced Michael Anthony Fosse in 2025CR002639 to two years in prison after the defendant waived appellate rights. Judge Boyd made an affirmative deadly-weapon finding and ordered no contact with the complainant. The court confirmed the defendant had previously pled true to specified violations and reviewed prior evaluation results, including a gang-affiliation screen that found no affiliation.
Several probation revocation matters were resolved with treatment-focused alternatives. For Titus Ramirez (2023CR2781), the court received pleas to multiple failures-to-report and failure-to-submit-drug-test violations but denied the state's motion to revoke. Instead the court amended conditions to require evidence-based treatment modalities (SADA/SATF and MRT where appropriate), portable alcohol monitoring for one year, regular random UAs, field visits once per month and limitations on driving. The judge ordered a TAP evaluation to determine whether inpatient care was required.
Likewise, in cases where probation recommended inpatient or felony-drug-court placement (for example, the docketed defendant Star Crystal Bright and Summer Munoz), the judge ordered rereferrals to felony drug court where appropriate and alternates (in-custody evaluation/treatment) if the court programs declined to accept the defendant. The court explicitly instructed probation and defense counsel to confer with program administrators to verify eligibility.
Other docket highlights: Robert Ortiz entered a plea and was sentenced under a plea agreement to 180 days in a state-jail facility with credit for time served; Brian Berry reached an amended plea that included a two-year prison term with $500 restitution to the complainant; and bond for Brandon McCaskill was set at $40,000 in one cause and $20,000 in another, with the court ordering regular UAs and pretrial-services drug testing while revocation proceedings were pending.
Throughout the docket the court emphasized practical instructions to defendants: "If there's an issue, let probation know about it," Judge Boyd said, advising defendants to communicate with probation officers and to return to court if supervisory conditions are not being addressed. The court repeatedly reminded defendants that pleading true to violations could expose them to prison terms within statutory ranges and that some program referrals carry long wait times.
The docket also included multiple administrative resets and scheduling orders: plea-deadline recalls for case management, jury-trial settings for defendants who requested trial, and specific dates for TAP and other evaluations. Where discovery was incomplete or counsel requested additional time, the court routinely reset matters to give defense counsel and prosecutors the opportunity to confer.
Next steps: defendants ordered to complete evaluations or treatment were given return dates; those who elected to appeal or waived appeal rights had those choices recorded on the record. The court recessed after closing a series of pleas and sentencing entries and instructed staff to docket any follow-ups and program referrals.
Quotes on the record included defense and family appeals for treatment and continuances; when the court presented choices in the Fosse case, Judge Boyd told the defendant, "These are your only choices," and later emphasized to the assembled defendants: "If there's an issue, let probation know about it. If you feel they're not addressing it, you can come back to the court."
