Cal. Rules of Court, rule 10.950 · Chapter 13. Trial Court Management of Criminal Cases
Role of presiding judge, supervising judge, criminal division, and master calendar department in courts having more than three judges
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The presiding judge of a court having more than three judges may designate one or more departments primarily to hear criminal cases. Two or more departments so designated must be the criminal division. The presiding judge may designate supervising judges for the criminal division, but retains final authority over all criminal and civil case assignments.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 10.950 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 227.1 effective January 1, 1985.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/ten/rule10_950
- Text hash
- sha256 4c829c9ab0af9d41bd34416494c51d018c228f45f439f5e0b1965e2cb1ef2d02
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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