33rd / 424th District Courts

Information for Prospective Grand Jurors

(Updated 10/21/2008 to realign San Saba County)

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The Courts cannot give legal advice to persons representing themselves. However, forms may be provided or links to other sources of forms and no warranty is made of their fitness for your use, and no legal advice is given or intended by reference to those resources.

Information Not Legal Advice. This section of this web site has been prepared for general information purposes only. The information on this web site is not legal advice. Legal advice involves the application of legal knowledge and skills by a licensed attorney to your specific circumstances.  Judges cannot give you legal advice, nor can any of their staff or any of the District Clerk staff.

Therefore, the information contained in this web site cannot replace the advice of a competent attorney.

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The intent of this section is to create a charge bank accessible by both the judges and attorneys practicing in the 33rd/424th. Individual charges or portions thereof will be uploaded from time to time either from actual charges or drafts.

It is possible to have your jury service postponed to a future date.  You will find a link below by which you can make that request via email if this is your first request.  If you have already requested a postponement from your date, you must contact the clerk's office directly.

The attached document is a Comprehensive Courtroom Decorum and Media Guidelines Order which is intended to be implemented in specific cases where extraordinary media or general public interest exists.

For the Practicing Bar

Make suggestions of areas of local practice where you feel a rule is needed for guidance, discuss [Local Rules|existing local rules] you either love or hate, or recommend court rules under which you've practiced that you feel are especially effective.

The Court allows settings to be requested in either the conventional way of contacting the Court Administrator or, preferably, via this web site. This section of documentation will explain both methods.