Upton County Criminal Docket Searches
District and county-level cases both start at the District / County Clerk page. That page links to the civil and criminal court-record portal. Use it as your launch point. Skip any direct portal address. Enter the exact cause number if you have it. The portal allows a name search in places. Check any result against the court, the filing date, and the case type before you pick one. The web is not the only route to a Upton County court docket, though.
Call the clerk at (432) 693-2861, mail a request to P.O. Box 465, Rankin, TX 79778, or visit 205 East 10th Street after confirming current hours. District settings can also be checked with the 112th administrator at (325) 392-5225. Justice and municipal matters go elsewhere. The county portal does not promise full citation coverage.
- Classify the offense level and read the court named on the document.
- Use the county portal for district or county criminal records.
- Search the exact cause number, then a permitted defendant-name field.
- Open the record and check the court, charge, setting, and status.
- Request the signed order or certified copy when the event list is not enough.
Upton Felony Docket Route
Felony cases in Upton County run through the 112th District Court, a five-county district court. Official 2025 personnel data lists Judge Pedro “Pete” Gomez Jr. and coordinator Rebecca Lumbreras. The same data tags the court for criminal, civil, family, juvenile, probate, and child-protection work. Officeholders change. Confirm current names before relying on any list.
For a felony criminal docket, use the county's 112th District Court page and the court's own docket page. Neither is a JP payment site. The administrator sits in Ozona. The Upton courthouse is in Rankin. That split is a normal product of the court's multi-county reach. When asking about a setting, give the administrator the cause number and county.
Criminal Dockets: What They Show
A published criminal docket from another county serves as the best format example. That county sits in the same 112th District Court. It shows how the court lays out its entries. It is not a roster of Upton County cases. Names and offense rows from that sample should never be republished or treated as Upton matters. The fields described here cover the format only.
| Cause number | A court identifier, such as CR-####; no single Upton format was confirmed. |
|---|---|
| Attorney or representation | Counsel information or representation status when shown. |
| Custody marker | A status column that requires current court context. |
| Offense and degree | The filed allegation and level, not proof of guilt. |
| Setting | Labels such as PRE-TRIAL 1 through PRE-TRIAL 5 or another proceeding. |
| Age in days | Elapsed case time, not the age of a person. |
The same sample includes plea or trial indicators along with revocation and adjudication entries. Those labels describe the docket stage. They do not replace a signed judgment, a dismissal, or a supervision order.
Upton Criminal Setting Labels
PRE-TRIAL 1 through PRE-TRIAL 5 are hearing labels in the same-court sample, and nothing more. The number does not rank the offense. It does not signal a result. It simply marks where the case sits in a run of pretrial settings. Similarly, “age in days” measures how long the matter has been on the docket, not a defendant's age. Read the header before the row and both traps disappear.
- Arraignment
- A hearing where the charge is stated and a plea may be entered.
- Pre-trial
- A setting before trial for motions, discovery, negotiation, or scheduling.
- Adjudication
- A judicial determination; the signed order controls its effect.
- Revocation
- A proceeding about alleged violation of supervision terms, not an automatic final result.
- Disposition
- The recorded resolution, which must be verified in the final order.
Criminal Case Stages on the Docket
A criminal case reaches the docket through a filing. A complaint, information, or indictment must be filed in the proper court. What you see first may not be the earliest investigative step, since the docket records court action rather than every police or prosecutor move. Arraignment and pretrial settings may come next. Motions, notices, continuances, and orders can fill the space between them.
Docket flow: Charge Filed › Arraignment › Pretrial Settings › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
Not every case follows a straight line. Settings get reset, counts get dismissed, supervision gets ordered, and appeals get filed. Deferred adjudication deserves special care. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 42A governs supervision. Public confidentiality turns on a valid nondisclosure mechanism or other law. For the real result, read the final order, not a shorthand event label.
Upton County Monthly Criminal Settings
The 112th District Court reports one regular Upton docket day each month. It also runs a monthly Zoom docket. The local county page describes a first-Tuesday orientation at 10:00 a.m. Treat these as planning patterns, not promises. The live docket, the latest setting order, a court notice, or the administrator's word controls. The official 112th District Court page sets out that monthly rhythm.
The district court page tells you the right local court, while the current docket and the administrator give the date you should actually appear.
Upton County Criminal Docket Courts
Felony matters generally travel the 112th District Court route. The constitutional county court carries its own criminal caseload flag in the OCA directory. Justice courts hold original jurisdiction over fine-only and other nonconfinement-sanction criminal matters. That authority comes from Texas Code of Criminal Procedure article 4.11. McCamey Municipal Court lists animal-control, curfew, and noise violations. It may hear eligible city or state-law fine-only matters.
Never guess the court from the defendant's town or where an event happened. Read the citation, charging paper, bond document, or setting notice instead. JP1 through JP4 each maintain precinct-specific channels. The official Justice Courts page posts current phone numbers and some payment links. Those payment services are not a searchable Upton County criminal docket.
Why State Search Misses Crime
re:SearchTX has real limits for criminal work. A Texas Judicial Council report notes that criminal case records sit outside its scope. So the service covers e-filed documents for civil matters. It is not a Upton County criminal docket search. The Texas Judicial Branch puts it plainly: no single statewide website holds every trial-court case. A blank re:SearchTX screen tells you almost nothing about an Upton County case.
Go back to the county portal and the clerk for district or county-level records. Fine-only cases belong to the named JP or municipal court. An appealed case lives on the Eighth Court of Appeals docket. Federal charges run through PACER for the Western District of Texas. That system sits apart from state courts entirely.
Access Rules for Criminal Dockets
A public criminal docket entry can still be walled off. Seals, juvenile confidentiality, expunction, nondisclosure, redaction rules, or some other court order may block what you would otherwise see. Upton's e-filing rules draw their own line. One side covers confidential or restricted material; the other covers records open to electronic viewing. One more distinction matters. A document can be hidden while another is simply unindexed. The two problems call for different fixes. Ask the clerk which condition applies. But do not press staff to interpret anyone's legal rights.
Key rules:
Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A provides the Texas expunction framework.
Government Code Chapter 411 contains nondisclosure provisions.
Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 42A governs community supervision and deferred adjudication.
Expunction works through a statute and a court's direction. Nondisclosure is different. It bars public access under a specific order or statute. Deferred adjudication does not always mean confidentiality, so the record and its governing order must be checked directly before assuming anything about a Upton County court docket entry.
When Upton Docket Images Fail
The 112th docket page is built from county tiles. The Upton tile was an image. An image can be an official public docket. Yet it can still resist searching, copying, and screen readers. When the text cannot be obtained that way, contact the administrator. Name the county and the cause number. Ask about the current setting rather than private details of unrelated cases.
Need the full case history or a certified disposition? That is District Court Records, reached through the combined clerk office. A calendar image, a payment receipt, and a certified judgment each do a different job. Keeping those straight makes any Upton County criminal docket search far more accurate.