Standing Order 2011-0005 (March 26, 2011, effective immediately): a Courtroom Clerk may note “formal probation modified to summary probation” on the minutes only when a defendant sentenced to formal probation later appears and the formal probation is modified to summary probation - outstanding fines and fees related to the formal probation, and their distribution, cease on the Court's order; fines and fees paid up to the modification stand, with no refund; and the defendant reports to the Court instead of probation.
California > Fifth Appellate District > Merced County > Superior Court of California, County of Merced
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED www.merced.courts.ca.gov 2260 N Street Merced, CA 95340 Phone (209) 725-4172 Fax (209) 725-4108 March 26, 2011 Effective Immediately 2011-0005 The Judges of the Merced Superior Court hereby permit any Courtroom Clerk the authority to note in writing on the minutes of the court “formal probation modified to summary probation” ONLY when a defendant takes a plea and is sentenced to formal probation and when that same defendant appears at a later date before the Court and the formal probation is modified to summary probation. Below are the conditions of the above authority: 1. All outstanding or remaining fines and fees related to the formal probation and the distribution of those fines and fees cease upon the Court’s order to modify the sentence to summary probation. 2. All fines and fees related to formal probation that was paid up to the date of the Court’s modification order will stand and be distributed accordingly; therefore the defendant will not be refunded monies. 3. The formal probation conditions ordering the defendant to report/notify probation will be modified wherein the defendant will now report/notify the Court. BRIAN L. McCABE PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE MERCED SUPERIOR COURT
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED www.merced.courts.ca.gov 2260 N Street Merced, CA 95340 Phone (209) 725-4172 Fax (209) 725-4108 March 26, 2011 Effective Immediately 2011-0005 The Judges of the Merced Superior Court hereby permit any Courtroom Clerk the authority to note in writing on the minutes of the court “formal probation modified to summary probation” ONLY when a defendant takes
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-15 (California T4 Merced build 2026-10-15) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-merced/docs/general/standing-order-07072026.pdf (11638206 bytes, sha256 3a64db27e5391b6e9054feb5caef786433c02e5204366a95c135937e05e1630f; the compilation “ACTIVE STANDING ORDERS 2006 to Present”, linked as “All Current Standing Orders”; 70 pages - 36 covered by scanned page images (each with a machine reading laid with it - not a card's source), 34 born-digital (one font of the juvenile competency protocol's pages draws its characters shifted)); this order the compilation's page 12, a scanned page image: read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/so-p12.png), transcribed with the compilation's pages 4 to 17 and checked against a RapidOCR reading of the images (at 200 dpi) and the file's own text layer for the same pages, never published: of the transcription's 2207 words, 194 6-word windows were not found in a reading, in 24 spans - 20 spans split into consecutive pieces each found (a page break, a letterhead or signature block the readings interleave, or the readings' line order) and 4 spans read again on the page images and found as transcribed (vision/check-log.txt; evidence/vision-check-2026-10-15.log, evidence/vision-explain-2026-10-15.log). Not part of the text: the compilation's page stamps (“N of 70”) and, where printed, the court's seal, the letterhead's upper-right block, the signature, the running footers and the order's distribution list (cc:), never content (taken out by build/normalize_transcripts.py; the transcriber's file is kept in custody). The transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.