Cal. Rules of Court, rule 4.2 · Division 1. General Provisions
Application
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The Criminal Rules apply to all criminal cases in the superior courts unless otherwise provided by a statute or rule in the California Rules of Court.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 4.2 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_2
- Text hash
- sha256 5aebd3e07ff4db4ee517a342e828a2bbbafb872cb42e8d151af88f35b6dc94dd
- 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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