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    Judge Chu was a great option to officiate our wedding! Beautiful external on the courthouse and a great experience.

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    Do they validate parking for any of those garages around there?

    No, but if you are participating as a juror, you will receive a pass to park in the court's garage for the days of the trial. For the first day of jury impaneling, you can park at any City metered spot and your parking ticket will be dismissed by… Read more

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    Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center - nancy, my favorite judge.

    Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center

    (10 reviews)

    Downtown

    I have been summoned a dozen times, I guess by now, to be a juror. I haven't had the opportunity…read moreto be selected tho. This was the case last week when I made the journey downtown to serve my summons. This became a very long day. About a 100 folks and it was a murder trail. YIKES. I brought a laptop bag and stuffed it with a sammy and some snacks, glad I did do that. This was a pretty well run machine, I must say. You will go through metal detectors and you check in with another bailiff to be given your juror number. I got to the court 30mins early just to be prepared. I also arranged to be dropped off by the wifey. I would recommend this or perhaps an uber. Very little parking around, but there were some spots we spied on the way. It may have been due to the seriousness of the trail, but we didn't start coming into the court room until an hour or so after the proposed start time. Heard from the Asst DA and the defense team. I would say the Asst DA was a little convoluted with his monologue and the defense attorney was a former judge, so he seemed much more on his game. The Judge, whose name now escapes me, was very clear on the rules, how to address the court, when we could speak and to be honest and speak loudly and hold up our paddle with your number on it when called on. Man, this was an eye-opening experience. Doesn't anybody listen to directions these days? Repeatedly, folks talked at the same time, didn't hold up paddles or whispered. All kinds of super repetitive questions from the juror pool and really idiotic diatribes went on. I believe this created why we were there for almost 9 hrs. The common sense and intelligence of my peers was a "Wow really" moment. It was a self defence trail and comments regarding the "Law" was always being challenged. It's the law, we are not there to question it, cannot change it. There was a lot of emotion, but I truly believe this is due to our country right now and what's happening to our democracy, more then this trial. "Who here owns a gun". So, like 90% of the folks raised their hand. This was especially scary for me. Anyhow, learned about self defense and what was legal and what wasn't. I wasn't selected and I re-connected with a long term friend I hadn't seen in many years. Bring your laptop, they do have decent Wifi for when you are sitting around after Voir Dire is completed. The young offender got 7yrs for killing a homeless guy who was threatening his dogs. That result troubled me once I followed the trail online.

    If you're here because you've been selected for jury duty for the 427th District Court and wanted…read moresome insight on logistics, this is my personal experience. Parking: Their email states that if you park at a meter and get an expired meter/pay station ticket, they will waive it for you. I naturally have trust issues, so I didn't park at a meter, but at the end, the Judge took the time to tell my group that they will indeed waive it if you bring it in. I personally prefer the low stress route of not getting a parking ticket by parking at the Capital Visitors Parking Garage and gambled that I'll likely not be picked and will be back within the free 2-hour window. After a nice, quiet 10 minute walk, I made it to the justice center. Location: The location of the Justice Center isn't immediately obvious. You can route to the "Travis County Criminal Court" on google maps, which is on Woodmansee Plaza. Process: Once you walk in, you'll go through security (shoes on, belts off). My email said that it's in Room 3.200, so after getting through security, walk to the back of the building where the elevators are, and take it up to the third floor. I got there right at 9am, but was actually one of the last ones there. No rush though, cause they'll wait for and call any stragglers. They were actually running late that morning, so we checked in and didn't actually entered the court room until right before 10am. It was a lot of standing/sitting around, so never hurts to bring reading material or snacks. In the end, the case was resolved earlier that morning, so we were all told to go home. Overall, the place was clean with bathrooms and free wifi available. All the staff as well as the other potential jurors (about sixty of them) were pretty nice and chill. This was my first jury duty experience, and it wasn't bad at all.

    Travis County 53rd Judicial District Civil Court - Travis County Court House

    Travis County 53rd Judicial District Civil Court

    (3 reviews)

    Downtown

    Across the street at the constables office precinct 5 I believe constable JT Armstrong found my…read morewallet outside and found my phone number and called me such an honorable man! Give this man a raise!

    So despite being a registered voter since 1977, I've never had an actual jury summons. Till last…read moremonth that is. Figures. The date I was supposed to appear? Monday, March 16 (the first day of the pub's busiest week of the year, & the day before St Patrick's Day). I responded electronically, trying to find a gentle way to say "no fucking way" to the appearance date, & desperately hoping for some form of disqualification. Turns out you can "block out" certain dates you are not available online when you complete the e-response. Unfortunately, I appear to be of (relatively) sound mind, can read & write in English, am not a convicted felon & am not under indictment, so I was still qualified to serve. I assumed my week long block would bump me to next month, or maybe even several months out, but sadly this was not the case. My new appearance date? Monday March 23. I called the recorded infoline at 11am as instructed, hoping to hear I would not be needed, but again, not to be. I was instructed to appear at 1:15 to be sworn & empaneled for jury selection in this august edifice. The building is a gem, at least the parts of it that haven't been refit & crammed full of new stuff. It's a 1930 "Moderne" style building, & our courtroom was one of the original high ceiling rooms from the old days. But I get ahead of myself. When I checked in (part of a motley crew of five dozen of what can only be termed the 'teaming masses') with the avuncular bailiff straight out of Central Casting, I was given a number, & a short questionnaire. It included 4-5 questions on...wait for it... HERPES. e.g. "Have you or anyone you know well been treated for herpes?" & "How much do you know about herpes?" & "Do you think you know more/less/about the same about herpes as most normal people?" This gave me some clue about the trial, obviously a civil matter. This could be interesting. At about 1:30 sixty mostly glum conscripts are ushered into the gallery area of the courtroom, seated in rows & handed numbered foam-core paddles bearing juror numbers. We looked like the lamest Sotheby's auction ever. The process is called "Voir Dire" which is apparently a French phrase meaning "your entire afternoon is shot." The wordy Judge explained that we would be questioned by attorneys for the plaintiff, & for the defense, & they would have the opportunity to disqualify jurors peremptorily or for cause. As he was explaining this & I looked around the courtroom for the first time, three things struck me: a guy in the gallery (actually sitting in what would be the jurors chairs during the trial) was a technology executive friend of mine; the plaintiff was a strikingly attractive young woman; oh, & the defendant was a high-tech entrepreneur I knew quite well & with whom I had had a past business relationship. Oh boy. This could be interesting. I resisted the urge to jump up & down & yell "EXCUSED!" & let the process unfold. What are the odds? Had I answered the summons for the 16th, I would have been in another courtroom. On this date, juries were being empaneled in no less than 8 courtrooms. Of all the judicial gin joints in all the courthouses in Travis, I had to walk into the one where I knew the barkeep. I was questioned early, & revealed my association with the defendant & the fact that it might well color my decision making process in this trial. I thought I'd be excused at that point. No such luck. Juror pleas of economic hardship, sexual squeamishness, medical emergency had to be heard first. Four & a half hours later, I had learned that the lovely plaintiff (25 years younger than the defendant) had contracted herpes, that she & the defendant (and for all I know, others) had had an act of consensual sex, & that the plaintiff was claiming that the defendant knew he had herpes at that point, had not disclosed same, & had in fact been the one that infected her. For this she wanted punitive damages of $3.5 million. Yes. And some compensatory damages too. Yes indeed. And some medical/pharmaceutical damages. Yikes. I also learned that the burden of proof on the plaintiff in civil cases is not "beyond reasonable doubt" but rather "based on a preponderance of evidence." Mercifully, after a sidebar conference with the judge & the attorneys confirming my association with the defendant, I was excused, "disqualified for cause," five occasionally interesting hours later. I got to see the start of judicial sausage being made, but I'm glad I didn't have to wait for the finished product on this one. [Author's Note: I learned from a juror who WAS empaneled that the case DID actually go to trial, and was sent to the jury for a verdict, but was settled before a verdict could be rendered. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.]

    Precinct 3 - Travis County - Look like this

    Precinct 3 - Travis County

    (2 reviews)

    Downtown

    So I'm driving back into my subdivision and stop at the stop sign, but not long enough to file,…read morepolish and paint my nails as required by the wonderful officer who pulled me over and gave me a ticket. How embarrassing as the neighbors drive by and rubber neck at me. I'm already a member of the leper lounge because we chose not to procreate. The sheriffs are supposed to be patrolling our neighborhood to discourage naughty crooks from breaking into our cars, but instead have taken to banking on pulling over the people in my hood.I know this, because there are a lot of people bitching about it on the neighborhood Yahoo group. I was so livid, incensed, irate because that just sucks to get pulled over in your own damn neighborhood on Thanksgiving!!!!!! Anyway, I remembered yesterday when I looked at my ripped up ticket which was stuck under my "fuckers" magnet on my fridge that I needed to respond to the court by Dec 25 or they're going to come get me. So I figured they'd be working today right? This is the first 24th of Dec that I haven't worked in like 5 years. But nooooooo, they were closed! Mixing church with state! Now what's going to happen when I call on Dec 26th? Just to play it safe, I faxed them a letter informing them I have attempted to no avail to contact them and they denied me this right because they are all off enjoying their eggnog. Bah humbug.

    Leslie Enriquez is by far the most courteous employee there. You can tell she takes her job…read moreserious and is super professional

    Travis County Courthouse - courthouses - Updated May 2026

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