Judge continues Price bond hearing, sentences Damonte Williams to six years’ deferred adjudication

A judge at a Bexar County criminal docket on March 7 continued a bond-reduction hearing for Courtney Price and accepted a plea that resulted in six years of deferred adjudication for Damonte Williams.

The court called State v. Courtney Price and heard argument on whether Price’s bonds should be reduced. The judge told the defendant that the hearing is limited to the question of an affordable bond amount and warned that discussing the facts of the case would allow the state to cross-examine. The judge said she did not have evidence of an amount Price or her family could pay and offered to recall the matter on Monday to allow the defense to submit proof or have a bondsman and witnesses appear by Zoom. The judge described that option as the path to produce a basis for any reduction rather than ruling on the motion that day.

The most significant outcome of the docket involved…