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San Mateo County Superior Court — Standing Order 09-104: Access to Evidence or Exhibits That Have Been Admitted in Criminal Cases (September 1, 2009)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Trial ExhibitsStanding Order 09-104: Access to Evidence or Exhibits That Have Been Admitted in Criminal Cases (September 1, 2009), Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo; listed in the court's Archive of Standing Orders Issued Between 1997 and 2025, a list linked from its Current and Past Standing Orders page (https://sanmateo.courts.ca.gov/general-information/current-and-past-standing-orders), at https://sanmateo.courts.ca.gov/system/files/09-104.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Commencing September 1, 2009, evidence or exhibits in the possession of the Clerk's Office in all criminal cases are not available for viewing, inspection or copying unless the trial judge or the Presiding Judge has authorized access, or the trial judge or another judge assigned by the Presiding Judge has authorized it after a hearing on a noticed motion with actual notice to all parties.

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > San Mateo County > Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo

Requirement

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Standing Order No: 09-104 ACCESS TO EVIDENCE OR EXHIBITS THAT HAVE BEEN ADMITTED IN CRIMINAL CASES IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that commencing September 1, 2009 and continuing, evidence or exhibits in the possession of the Clerk’s Office in all criminal cases will not be available for viewing, inspection or copying, unless one of the following exceptions is applicable: 1) The trial judge has authorized access to the evidence in question; or, 2) The Presiding Judge has authorized access to the evidence in question; or, 3) The trial judge or other judge assigned by the Presiding Judge has authorized access after a hearing upon a noticed motion that has provided actual notice to all parties in that case. Dated: Presiding Judge Stephen M. Hall

Source of truth

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Standing Order No: 09-104 ACCESS TO EVIDENCE OR EXHIBITS THAT HAVE BEEN ADMITTED IN CRIMINAL CASES IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that commencing September 1, 2009 and continuing, evidence or exhibits in the possession of the Clerk’s Office in all criminal cases will not be available for viewing, inspection or copying, unles

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: September 1, 2009
Last verified: October 8, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-san-mateo-2026-10-08

Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-08 (California T4 San Mateo build 2026-10-08) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-san-mateo/docs/09-104.pdf (112766 bytes, sha256 f2fa22971bcf0bc41747655e85eba34aff763c25e78d0694aed1c2af1cca9f3d; 1 page; a scan, page images, no text layer): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi; checked against three machine readings never published (RapidOCR on each page, the file's own text layer where it has one and RapidOCR on each printed line): every 6-word window of the transcription looked up and each span no reading holds read again on the page image (evidence/vision-check-2026-10-08.log). The clerk's filed stamps, the signatures and the pleading paper's line numbers are not part of the text (a handwritten order number or date, or a stamped name, is carried where it fills the order's own line); the transcription's closing note, which describes them, is not published.