Bexar County Criminal Defense
Built for the lawyer the Sixth Amendment promised
For the appointed and managed-assigned defenders on the Bexar County wheel, and the public defender community, who take the case that lands on a Friday and owe an indigent defendant a real lawyer with real tools by Monday.
Inside the app
The appointment that lands on a Friday afternoon
It arrives the way it always arrives. An email from the county with a name, a cause number, a court, a defendant sitting in custody who has never met you and is counting on you anyway. By Monday you are expected to know the file, and the file is a stack of raw body-cam video, 911 and interrogation audio, scene photos, and a discovery obligation under Article 39.14 that the State is in no hurry to satisfy.
This was built for that weekend. When the appointment email lands, the matter stands itself up: the client identity, the cause number, the charge, the court, the conflict check, and the appointed-counsel fee voucher that pays you, all pinned to the Case Board from the first hour so nothing you earned goes unrecorded. The detective keeps a board because the case has to live somewhere a person can see all of it at once. So does the defender.
You read the tape so your client never has to take the State’s word for it
Indigent defense has never lacked for evidence. It has lacked for the hours to sit through forty minutes of dash-cam and two and a half hours of station-house audio that the State produced at the last possible moment. The Evidence Orchestrator reads the raw recordings, the body-cam video, the 911 and interrogation audio, the scene photos, in one controlled run, and hands back a court-ready record with the running time, a plain-language summary, and the wall-clock time the recording was actually happening. A silence at 0:41:12 becomes a documented fact, not something you missed at midnight.
The reading is done by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini. The work that used to take a paralegal and a budget is now within reach of the appointed defender carrying a docket. That is what Gideon was supposed to mean. A real lawyer, with real tools, for the person who could not buy either.
From what the evidence holds to the motion you sign
A motion is only as strong as the record underneath it, and the record now exists. The Issue Spotter assembles the motions and the Article 39.14 discovery demand from what the evidence actually shows, on the canonical Bexar caption, auto-filled from the matter you already opened: client name, cause number, court, the hours. Three AI systems read every court-facing draft before it reaches you, so the work has been checked three ways before a defender’s name goes near it.
Before any motion, the Issue Spotter also surfaces a charge-level read from that same evidence: whether the footage actually supports the felony on the charging instrument, or fits a lesser offense, with the statute and the timestamp it is built on, flagged for you to weigh. For an appointed defender carrying a heavy docket, knowing early that a case may be overcharged shapes both the defense and the record, and the call is always yours to make.
Then you sign it, because a lawyer signs a motion and software does not. Today you file through eFileTexas and record the envelope number and the filed date back on the matter. One-click filing is designed and coming soon, not claimed as live. Nothing files on its own, and nothing leaves the building without your hand on it.
One system for the whole matter, and the voucher that pays you
Managed assigned counsel and the public defender community do not lose cases for lack of talent. They lose hours to a tab for the file, a tab for the calendar, a tab for the evidence, a tab for the books, and a separate ritual entirely for the voucher. Here the whole matter runs in one place, the case board and the evidence and the motions and the appointed-counsel fee voucher, sitting between the Google Workspace you already keep for files, contacts, calendar, and phone, and the payment and bookkeeping tools that close the loop.
The hours you log on the Case Board are the hours the voucher reports. The defender who runs a high indigent-defense volume keeps more of the day for the work only a lawyer can do, and has a clean record of the work the docket already demanded.
Why this matters
Gideon v. Wainwright promised that a person facing the loss of their liberty gets a lawyer. In 2026 a real lawyer means one with the time and the tools to actually defend the person on the bench, not one drafting a suppression motion from memory at the end of a fourteen-matter docket day. The appointed defender and the managed-assigned-counsel attorney walk into the historic courthouse carrying the same Sixth Amendment weight as any retained lawyer. The work product, and the day, should say so.
The voucher, end to end
From the first hour to the county check
The appointed-counsel lifecycle in plain order, with the attorney signing every step that leaves the building.
Dated in-court and out-of-court hours feed straight into the voucher on the matter.
Each task is read as billable-hourly or flat-fee, with room to specify anything else.
Client, cause number, hours, and flat fees populate from the matter, filing-ready.
The check stub is read against what was submitted, so a short-paid cause number is something you see.
A drafted note to managed assigned counsel waits for the attorney to edit and send. Nothing leaves on its own.
The CCP 26.04 lifecycle, appointment through payment, each step dated and kept.
Learn
Learn For Appointed Counsel
Short, plain reads, step-by-step tutorials, and a self-check on this pillar.
The whole machine
Ten logins down to two
One subscription stands in for the stack a defense firm usually stitches together, so the practice runs on two things it already trusts: Google Workspace, where the files and matters live, and The IMC Machine, where the matter runs. LawPay and QuickBooks, the money rail, stay where they are, fed by the Machine. Casework, evidence, motions, vouchers, marketing, and events, in one place.
San Antonio and Bexar County. The Machine is built for here first. For another city, county, or region, the build-out is custom and carries its own setup fee.
