04-16-2024, 02:55 PM
None of this has anything to do with the Jones cases, and the claim that a judge (never mind a DA, who would never be involved in a civil case like Jones's) will enter a default judgment against a defendant who appeared and didn't disobey court orders is asinine. Here's the Texas Rule of Civil Procedure that authorized the default judgment in that case:
Look, rendering a default judgment for disobeying an order in connection with discovery is the nuclear option that judges don't resort to lightly. In the Texas case Jones had been ordered to pay $126,000 in legal fees and court costs almost two years before the default judgments were entered due to his earlier discovery failures.
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