Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.1031 · Chapter 2. Conduct of Trial
Juror note-taking
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Jurors must be permitted to take written notes in all civil and criminal trials. At the beginning of a trial, a trial judge must inform jurors that they may take written notes during the trial. The court must provide materials suitable for this purpose.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.1031 adopted effective January 1, 2007.
Advisory Committee Comment
Several cautionary jury instructions address jurors' note-taking during trial and use of notes in deliberations. (See CACI Nos. 102, 5010 and CALCRIM Nos. 102, 202.)
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/two/rule2_1031
- Text hash
- sha256 a88855a5e39d864e9dbbddaad04b28d618f03b646bf56eb8b9a8cf2e824b9c3e
- 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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