A bid by Harris County prosecutors to remove a state district court judge from a domestic violence case failed following ...

The Harris County Family Law Center at 1115 Congress St., built in 1968, has faced uncertainty for years.

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 primary responsibility of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office is to prosecute criminal cases in the county’s felony, misdemeanor, and juvenile courts.

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.

As of June, the backlog continued to hover around 100,000 pending cases in both civil and criminal court, according to Harris County’s district court dashboard.

Of the 64 district court benches in Harris County, 27 are on the ballot this November. Candidates must be at least 25, licensed to practice law in Texas for at least four years, and Harris County ...

But between February 28, 2020 and July 21, 2021, the number of stale cases increased by 182 percent, according to our analysis of case data provided by Harris County district court officials ...

• Levi J. Benton for 215th Judicial District: The longest-serving African-American civil jurist in the history of Harris County, Republican Benton has run an even-handed court and deserves re ...

Frank Aguilar, a Harris County district court judge, is accused of punching and choking a woman at a party in Galveston County on New Year's Eve in 2023. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...