Wild Ideas

[craesz]

I was appointed to represent an indigent individual in this court who was being held in the SHU in the Denton County jail. In conformity with the local rule, I went to see him the same day I had received the information that I had been appointed only to be informed that he had been released a mere 20 minutes prior to my arrival.

As you might guess, I have several clients. One of those clients with a matter pending in another local court required a special hearing. That hearing had been scheduled twice before only to have the State not be aware the first time and the State then provide information the second that apparently mooted the issue only, upon inspection, to be discovered that the issue still existed. (Yes that is a mouthful - it's complicated) I specially set the same hearing again to insure my other client's issue was properly dealt with by the court. That hearing was set some time ago.

On June 29, 2009, I received a notification from the Denton County Clerk that the individual with the matter pending in this court I tried to see who had been released 20 minutes prior to my arrival (see above), had been set on the same day and time as my special set hearing in the other local court. I did what I thought was the right thing and had my office contact the coordinator for this court to explain the situation. The response is interesting. [Take a look here] I presume that my client in this court won't mind waiting while I have the previously scheduled special set hearing which I believe will take quite a while. Or at least I guess that is how Judge Crouch sees the situation as I presume the coordinator is acting under his direction.