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Santa Barbara County Superior Court — Department 4 (Judge Donna D. Geck) Pre-Trial Order: Court Trial (rev 10/04/2011)

High confidence· verified October 7, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 4 (Judge Donna D. Geck) Pre-Trial Order: Court Trial (rev 10/04/2011), Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara; posted on the court's Judicial Assignments page (https://www.santabarbara.courts.ca.gov/general-information/judicial-assignments) at https://www.santabarbara.courts.ca.gov/system/files/forms-and-filings/ptocourttr.pdf, fetched 2026-10-07.

Summary

Department 4's pre-trial order for court trials: witness lists and the evidence binders, exhibit numbering (1 – 200 and 201 – 400) and custody of exhibits after judgment, use of exhibits, deposition transcripts, the time allocated to each party, the order of proof and of closing argument, court etiquette, objections, leading questions, court hours (Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.), witnesses, recordings and interpreters.

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Santa Barbara County > Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara > Anacapa Division, Department 4

Source of truth

dgeck@sbcourts.org; SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA [ Plaintiff[s], vs. Defendant[s]. AND CROSS COMPLAINT Case No.: [ PRE-TRIAL ORDER: COURT TRIAL TRIAL DATE: [ IT IS ORDERED that: Witness Lists. If not already done, each lead trial counsel shall forthwith file, serve and, e-mail to the court at dgeck@sbcourts.org as an e-mail attachment (Microsoft Word pr

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: October 4, 2011
Last verified: October 7, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-santa-barbara-2026-10-07

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Santa Barbara build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-santa-barbara/docs/forms-and-filings/ptocourttr.pdf (237047 bytes, sha256 3e5d9785859b29d13cb05884cd9a625f6cd2d0cef8dc22f021d1f956270353f3; 5 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running headers or footers removed as chrome (a running header or footer kept once where it names or dates the document); lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Documented settings (whitespace-only or same-character changes; the proofs hold): the pleading caption set cell by cell (its column of “)” left out as chrome); a sentence the reflow broke rejoined and an indented paragraph set apart (whitespace fixes). Attached to Judge Donna D. Geck: the document is for Dept. 4 of the Anacapa Division, where the court's Judicial Assignments page seats Judge Donna D. Geck and its Superior Court Organization & Locations page lists the officer in that division. Review note: The order's caption, a pleading caption with blanks, is set cell by cell.