The Chronicle endorses the following candidates for judge in Harris County's criminal district courts. • Ruben Guerrero for 174thJudicial District: Guerrero has a distinguished 30-year record as ...

Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 16 will proceed as planned with scheduled cases and trials. Canceled bond dockets in the other 15 courts will be rescheduled. To find your new date, monitor ...

As Harris County's population continues to swell, more people means more crimes. And that results in more work for the county's 22 felony courts. But no court is busier right now than the 209th ...

The 16 Harris County Criminal Courts at Law will be held in temporarily assigned courtrooms between the 10th and 15th floors and will maintain staggered dockets, according to court management.

According to Ramsey, this is up from 47,238 total cases that were pending before Harris County criminal district courts at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Should Harris County add six extra district courts? Harris County commissioners are exploring the proposal as a way to reduce the county's huge criminal case backlog.

The “lost and found” cases, as a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judge labeled them, came to light last year, the Harris County district clerk’s office said in a statement last week.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Harris County Commissioners took another step Tuesday toward clearing its massive backlog of criminal court cases, unanimously approving eight new visiting judge positions.

Candidates are vying in seven races for Harris County Criminal Courts-at-Law, which hear misdemeanor criminal cases. Court-At-Law No. 1: Helm vs. Frankoff In the race for County Criminal Court-at ...

Johnson said the new bill would add three criminal courts to Harris County to help break down that backlog. “If we stay in our current set up, it will take us 15 years.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (The Texas Tribune) - Overlooked in the churn of one of the country’s busiest courthouses, the forgotten appeals included two death penalty cases, and one from a man who’s already ...

The Court of Criminal Appeals punted Rabbani’s case back to Harris County to review the arguments, and in May, prosecutors agreed with Rabbani’s claim and recommended that he get a new ...