Pointe Coupee Parish Court Calendar
The official online calendar channel is the 18th Judicial District Court printable court calendar. It is useful, but narrow. The court says the calendar contains criminal court dates and civil rule dates only. It also warns that civil hearing dates and civil trial dates are subject to frequent change and may not be accurately represented on the calendar. For Pointe Coupee Parish court dockets, that warning is not a footnote. It is the central access rule.
The calendar page links a current January through December calendar file. A person checking Pointe Coupee Parish court dockets should use the printable calendar as a first screen, then confirm the date with the judge's office, the Pointe Coupee Parish Clerk of Court, or the 18th Judicial District Attorney. That is especially important for civil matters, continuances, criminal matters with warrants or bond conditions, and traffic citations that may involve the DA or sheriff payment channel.
The 18th JDC printable court calendar is the official source for the published calendar notice.
Its limited coverage explains why a missing date should trigger confirmation, not an assumption that a case has no scheduled activity.
What Pointe Coupee Parish Dockets Show
A docket is the schedule or chronological record of events in a case. In a Pointe Coupee Parish criminal case, docket material may point to arraignment, motion settings, subpoenas, plea dates, trial dates, sentencing, minute entries, and appellate-record steps. In a civil case, it may point to filings, civil rule dates, motions, orders, trial settings, exhibits, minutes, judgments, and appeal preparation. The docket is not the same as the whole file.
Full case records are broader. They may include pleadings, bills of information, indictments, motions, orders, judgments, evidence, exhibits, notices to counsel, financial entries, appellate material, and certified copies. A docket date can tell a person when something is scheduled or when an event was entered, while a full court record explains what was filed, what the judge ordered, and what the final disposition or sentence was.
| Item | Docket | Full Case Record |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Tracks events, settings, and schedule points. | Preserves the filed court case and documents. |
| Common use | Checking hearings, rule dates, arraignment, trial, or sentence settings. | Reviewing pleadings, charges, judgments, orders, evidence, or certified copies. |
| Local access | 18th JDC calendar, ClerkNet, judge office, Clerk, or DA confirmation. | ClerkNet and Clerk Civil or Criminal Department request channels. |
| Limit | May change and may not show all civil hearings or trials. | May require account access, payment, in-person request, or restriction review. |
How to Find Pointe Coupee Parish Dockets
The best search path depends on the case type. Criminal and civil district-court dates start with the 18th JDC printable calendar and ClerkNet. Case-specific details and certified court records go through the Clerk of Court. Criminal date questions may also require the District Attorney because the DA prosecutes all felonies in the 18th JDC parishes and most misdemeanors investigated by sheriff offices and State Police, including traffic citations.
- Check the 18th JDC printable court calendar for published criminal dates and civil rule dates.
- Use ClerkNet when the question is tied to a full court case record or docket entry rather than a general calendar.
- Contact the Clerk Civil Department for civil suits, successions, probate, divorce, family matters, civil minutes, exhibits, and appellate records.
- Contact the Clerk Criminal Department for bills of information, indictments, motions, subpoenas, notices, criminal minutes, trial evidence, and appellate records.
- For criminal or traffic prosecution questions, confirm with the 18th Judicial District Attorney Pointe Coupee office.
- For Justice of the Peace small claims, evictions, ordinance matters, and limited criminal matters, use the relevant district contact from the parish JP directory.
Pointe Coupee Parish Docket Search Fields
The research did not capture a live sample docket entry or ClerkNet docket-result columns, so a sample Pointe Coupee Parish docket should not be invented. The official calendar and ClerkNet field captures still give enough structure to explain what users can safely rely on. Calendar entries are schedule notices. ClerkNet is a case-record search path. Judge, Clerk, and DA offices are the confirmation channels when the date matters.
| Field or Notice | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Printable calendar link | The 18th JDC page links the current January through December court-calendar file. |
| Calendar coverage | The official notice says the calendar includes criminal court dates and civil rule dates only. |
| Civil hearing/trial warning | The court warns that civil hearing and civil trial dates change frequently and may not be accurately shown. |
| Confirmation channel | Users should confirm with the judge's office, parish Clerk of Court, or District Attorney. |
| ClerkNet search box | The app text says case number, instrument number, or name can be entered for real-time filtering. |
| Sample docket entry | No official sample docket entry was captured from public static inspection. |
Note: A printed or downloaded calendar should be treated as a current aid, not final proof that a hearing cannot move.
Pointe Coupee Parish Court Docket Offices
Pointe Coupee Parish belongs to the 18th Judicial District Court, which serves Iberville, West Baton Rouge, and Pointe Coupee Parishes. Division A is the Pointe Coupee courthouse division listed by the court's own judge page. The current court judge page is the best source for division assignments because the research found a conflict with older District Attorney role-page text. For docket confirmation, use the court's judge page and official office contacts rather than stale copies of division lists.
The 18th JDC judges page lists divisions, judge offices, phones, and faxes.
Those contacts are the practical backstop when a Pointe Coupee Parish docket date may have changed after publication.
| Division | Judge | Office | Use for Dockets |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Judge J. Kevin Kimball | 201 East Main St., New Roads, 225-638-5532 | Pointe Coupee courthouse division and local district-court settings. |
| B | Chief Judge Tonya S. Lurry | 850 8th St., Port Allen, 225-336-2419 | Regional 18th JDC matters and language-access coordination. |
| C | Judge Pro Tempore Melvin C. Zeno | 58050 Meriam St., Plaquemine, 225-687-5230 | Division contact per the current court judge page. |
| D | Judge Elizabeth A. Engolio | 58050 Meriam St., Plaquemine, 225-687-5220 | Division contact per the current court judge page. |
Pointe Coupee Parish Docket Day Rules
Calendar access is only one part of appearing in court. The 18th JDC security rules apply to Pointe Coupee courthouse visits. Visitors may be screened with walk-through metal detectors, x-ray scanners, hand-held wands, and searches of personal items. The prohibited-items list includes weapons, knives, scissors, sharp tools, mace or pepper spray, cell phones, cameras, audio-visual equipment, food, drinks, and gum. A person checking a docket should plan for screening before entering the courtroom area.
The 18th JDC courthouse security page is the official visitor rule source for docket-day planning.
Phones and cameras are often the most surprising barred items, so checking the rule before travel can prevent missed courtroom entry.
Language access also matters for hearings. The 18th JDC lists Chief Judge Tonya S. Lurry as Language Access Coordinator, with coordinator contact at 850 8th Street, Port Allen, LA 70767, phone 225-336-2419, and weekday hours of 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Interpreter request forms and court information are available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, French, and additional brochure languages.
The 18th JDC interpreter and language-access page publishes those request materials.
Interpreter requests should be handled before the hearing date when possible because a docket listing does not itself arrange language services.
Lower-Court Pointe Coupee Parish Dockets
Pointe Coupee Justice of the Peace courts may handle certain criminal matters, civil disputes up to $5,000, evictions, ordinance violations, notarizations, and weddings. The parish lists 12 JP districts. No official public JP online docket was located, so lower-court docket access depends on the relevant district and parish JP contacts. The parish office phone is 225-638-9556 for general routing.
JP courts do not hear divorce, succession, interdiction, liquidation, habeas corpus, title-to-real-estate suits, suits against governmental bodies, or suits against public officials performing official duties. That boundary is important: a small claim or eviction may be outside the 18th JDC calendar, while a divorce or probate matter should not be routed to JP court.
The Louisiana R.S. 13:312 First Circuit structure statute places Pointe Coupee in the appellate framework above the district court.
Appeal placement does not create a local docket search, but it explains where district-court appeals move after a Pointe Coupee Parish judgment.
Confirming Pointe Coupee Parish Court Dates
Confirm every important date with the issuing office. For district civil dates, use the Clerk Civil Department or the judge office. For criminal dates, use the Clerk Criminal Department, judge office, or 18th Judicial District Attorney. For traffic matters, use the DA traffic pretrial channel, Clerk, sheriff payment channel, or judge office as the citation requires. For JP matters, contact the relevant JP or constable district.
A failure-to-appear issue can turn a calendar question into a warrant, bond, or custody question. Absence from the printable calendar does not prove that a warrant, capias, subpoena, court date, or condition has been cleared. The official calendar warning is plain enough: civil dates change often, and confirmation with the court office is part of responsible docket use.