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Judge reviews morning docket, resets dates and accepts pleas in multiple cases
Summary
At a morning docket call in the 187th District Court the judge outlined courtroom rules, set trial and plea-deadline dates, accepted pleas in several felony cases and imposed probationary conditions or short custodial sentences in others.
The court convened with an admonition from the presiding judge that the calendar would recess at 11 a.m. and reconvene at 1:30 p.m., and that parties should not expect additional return dates. The judge called the docket and handled dozens of matters, granting resets, setting trial dates and accepting plea agreements.
Among the outcomes, the court accepted a deferred-adjudication plea for Luis Canseco, imposing three years of community supervision with TAP evaluation, random UAs, 100 hours of community-service restitution and reporting requirements. The judge reminded Canseco that a deferred adjudication could be revoked if conditions are not met and that a felony conviction carries a firearms ban.
The court also accepted a plea and deferred finding of guilt for another defendant, with requirements including reporting, TAP evaluation and a prohibition on employment with minors. In a separate case, Robert Caron pleaded guilty under a plea agreement; the court imposed 81 days in the Bexar County Jail and a $600 fine, and ordered no unsupervised contact with a named individual.
Several matters were reset to allow defense counsel more time to review discovery or to obtain records. For example, a discovery issue in John Vargas’s case prompted the court to set a motion-to-suppress status hearing for June 22 to permit the parties to confer and to locate a missing dash-cam recording. The court set a jury trial on July 7 for Randy Gallegos after counsel estimated a three-day trial.
The judge reminded defendants that if their cases remain unresolved by the announced recess they would have to return in the afternoon and that requests to be continued to another day are routinely denied. "We're recessing at 11, and anybody who has not concluded their business by 11, you're coming back in the afternoon," the judge said.
The court’s calendar also included several motion-to-revoke proceedings and agreed resolutions; when parties presented agreements the judge reviewed plea admonishments, advised defendants of appeal waivers in plea deals and accepted or rejected proposed terms as required. The docket call concluded with instructions to the clerk and admonitions about punctuality before the court recessed.
