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Cal. Rules of Court, rule 4.1 · Division 1. General Provisions

Title

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)

The rules in this title may be referred to as the Criminal Rules.

Notes and commentary — not rule text

History

Rule 4.1 adopted effective January 1, 2007.

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/four/rule4_1
Text hash
sha256 dc790ad3894b0973fad04a3e102693b26b0e1641f00ea9ad6d4a5f12388b7bfe
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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