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Rule 20 (20.1 to 20.4): the felony trial assignment calendar (TAC) - trial counsel present, in limine and trial motions, trial briefs, jury instructions and witness and evidence lists on file by 12:00 pm on the TAC date, motions heard at 1:30 pm, and jury trials beginning on Mondays at 8:00 a.m. (20.1); discovery under Penal Code §1054, informal requests deemed made at the arraignment (20.2); the mandatory local criminal forms (20.3); and motions for the release of an in-custody defendant on a misdemeanor, heard only on Friday at 1:30 p.m. by video appearance - a rule in effect only during the declaration of emergency addressing coronavirus and COVID-19 (20.4).
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LOCAL RULE 20 CRIMINAL LAW (Effective Date 1/1/17, as amended 7/1/17, as amended 7/1/19, as amended 4/2/20, as amended 1/1/25) 20.1 FELONY TRIAL ASSIGNMENT CALENDAR (TAC) (Effective 1/1/17) A. Trial counsel is required to be present at the felony trial assignment calendar (TAC). All in limine motions, trial motions, trial briefs, jury instructions, witness lists and evidence lists are to be on file by 12:00 pm on the date of the TAC. Trial motions and motions in limine, will be heard at 1:30 pm on the TAC date unless otherwise ordered by the Court. Witness lists and evidence lists are to be filed separately from the trial brief. All items of evidence are to be shown to opposing counsel no later than the TAC date. 1. At TAC, the Court will state on the record the dates the trial will be heard. Jury trials will begin on Mondays at 8:00 a.m. (Effective 1/1/17) 20.2 DISCOVERY (Effective 7/1/17) A. All parties and their attorneys shall fully comply with Penal Code §1054, inclusive. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of Penal Code 1054, et seq., by formal Court order, case-specific informal requests for discovery pursuant to Penal Code §1054.5(b) are deemed to have been made by both parties at the arraignment on the complaint in any Criminal action. (Effective 7/1/17) 20.3 Mandatory Criminal Forms (Effective 1/1/25) A. Local forms adopted for mandatory use shall be used, whenever applicable. The current version of each form is available for viewing and downloading on the Court’s website by visiting https://www.butte.Courts.ca.gov/forms-filing/local-Rules-and-forms, section Rule 20 Criminal Law. (Effective Date 1/1/25) 20.4 MOTIONS FOR RELEASE OF AN IN-CUSTODY DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH OR SENTENCED ON A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE (Effective 4/2/20) A. Any Amicus brief filed by the Sheriff addressing jail operations, housing, or coronavirus, shall immediately be posted on the Court’s website by the Court and is thereafter subject to meaning of the Evidence Code section 452; B. If requested by a Superior Court judge, a memorandum by the Sheriff addressing jail operations, housing, or coronavirus, shall immediately be posted on the Court’s website by the Court and is thereafter subject to Judicial Notice by the Court within the meaning of Evidence Code section 452; C. Any misdemeanor in-custody motions for release on bail or own recognizance will be heard only on Friday at 1:30 p.m. with the defendant attending through video appearance. If the defendant is released from custody prior to the hearing, the motion will go off calendar and the case will be continued by the Court to a date after May 18, 2020. D. This Rule is only in effect during the declaration of emergency by a state or local authority addressing coronavirus and COVID-19. (Effective 4/2/20)
LOCAL RULE 20 CRIMINAL LAW (Effective Date 1/1/17, as amended 7/1/17, as amended 7/1/19, as amended 4/2/20, as amended 1/1/25) 20.1 FELONY TRIAL ASSIGNMENT CALENDAR (TAC) (Effective 1/1/17) A. Trial counsel is required to be present at the felony trial assignment calendar (TAC). All in limine motions, trial motions, trial briefs, jury instructions, witness lists and evidence lists are to be on fil
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-10 (California T4 Butte build 2026-10-10) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-butte/docs/local-rules/local-rules-january-2026-final-edit_san.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “Local Court Rules Effective July 1, 2026”, as fetched 2026-10-10; 6485001 bytes, sha256 043b7a23248fccbde751232510b0b283759182bb05446c97c68478f2adcb12b1; 229 pages; this rule PDF page 119) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow) and its strike-out: 19 rules - 1 to 4, 6, 9, 12 to 22, 50 and 51 - each composed from its own pages (PDF pages 14 to 126, printed “Page 1 of 216” to “Page 113 of 216”), from its heading (“LOCAL RULE 1 GENERAL RULES”, with its history note on the same row) to its last history note: each page's running header (“SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF BUTTE RULES”) and its two footer lines (the rule's name and “Page N of 216”) removed as chrome - PDF page 24, a Rule 2 page, prints Rule 1's name in its footer, removed there too; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs, each rule's heading and each subdivision's label and title (“2.1 APPLICABILITY”) set as one line, as printed on one row; the strike report (review/strike-report-2026-10-10.txt) finds no struck run; 14 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: eleven complaint addresses in Rules 6, 9, 16, 17 and 51 whose street the reflow ran into the court's name, each street set on its own line as printed; Rule 2.6(B)'s transcript request address set on its four lines; Rule 2.16's empty label “D.” set apart from Rule 2.17's heading; Rule 16.27's “c)Training” set on its own line) and no same-character fix; the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, bold-line, false-break, fragment and row audits (custody file book_extra_audits.py; review/book-extra-audits-2026-10-10.txt) list candidates read one by one; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the list of the rules with their effective dates, the applicability statement, the table of contents, the abbreviations, the subject index, the forms indexes and the local forms printed as page images (PDF pages 127 to 229) belong to no card. Review note: Rule 20.4(D) prints “This Rule is only in effect during the declaration of emergency by a state or local authority addressing coronavirus and COVID-19” (effective 4/2/20; 20.4(C) continues a released defendant's case “to a date after May 18, 2020”). The card carries the rule as printed; whether any such declaration remains in effect is a review task. The proposed changes effective January 1, 2027 (held) strike the rule's heading and mark it “RESERVED”, and add Rules 20.5 and 20.6.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.