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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...