Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.642 · Article 3. Briefs, Hearing, and Decision
Filing, finality, and modification of decision; rehearing; remittitur
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Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Rules 8.532 through 8.540 govern the filing, finality, and modification of decision, rehearing, and issuance of remittitur by the Supreme Court in an appeal from a judgment of death.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 8.642 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 36.3 effective January 1, 2004.
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/eight/rule8_642
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- sha256 ef36dcc5821e20c94531693418f3c7dbb1867eb6e7d8299f7691765839cb0564
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- 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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