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If your case was dismissed for want of prosecution, you can ask the judge to reopen your case by filing a Motion to Reinstate Case on Docket and Notice of Hearing (if you file by the deadline discussed below.) See Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules 165(a)(4).
?Dismissed for want of prosecution? or DWOP means your case is dismissed by the judge because nothing has happened in your case for a while or you missed a hearing or trial (of which you had notice).
The rules of civil procedure require that a continuance motion be verified: ?No application for a continuance shall be heard before the defendant files his defense, nor shall any continuance be granted except for sufficient cause supported by affidavit, or by consent of the parties, or by operation of law.? Tex.
The state has up to one year from the date of the offense or six months from the date of dismissal, whichever is longer, to re-file the charges. If charges are dismissed and re-filed within one year of the date of the incident, however, they can be dismissed without prejudice again and re-filed again within six months.
Rule 306a. Date of Judgment or Order (1981) Judges, attorneys and clerks are directed to use their best efforts to cause all judgments, decisions, and orders of any kind to be reduced to writing and signed by the trial judge with the date of signing stated therein.
Rule 165a. Dismissal for Want of Prosecution (1988) 1. Failure to Appear. A case may be dismissed for want of prosecution on failure of any party seeking affirmative relief to appear for any hearing or trial of which the party had notice.
Under Level 2 discovery, each side is only allowed 25 written interrogatories that ask for more than identifying information about a document. Additionally, the responding party may respond by telling the other side where the information can be found in public records instead of answering the question directly.
If prosecutors dismissed the case ?without prejudice,? they can refile charges any time before the statute of limitations has expired ? that is, they can reopen it if they are able to overcome whatever caused the dismissal in the first place. If the case is dismissed ?with prejudice,? the case is over permanently.
29 Rule 306a. 3 requires clerks to immediately notify parties when an appealable judgment is signed. 30 If a party can prove to the trial court that the party did not receive notice of the signed order, the clock will not begin running until the party has actual knowledge.