Cal. Rules of Court, rule 4.572 · Article 3. Death Penalty-Related Habeas Corpus Proceedings in the Superior Court
Transfer of petitions
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Unless the court finds good cause for it to consider the petition, a petition subject to this article that is filed in a superior court other than the court that imposed the sentence must be transferred to the court that imposed the sentence within 21 days of filing. The court in which the petition was filed must enter an order with the basis for its transfer or its finding of good cause for retaining the petition.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 4.572 adopted effective April 25, 2019.
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_572
- Text hash
- sha256 0d4aeafa808265e6eabf275af0b37b4a93050f85fb69d579498dadec7f1d95fb
- 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
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.