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Chapter Nineteen: filing deadlines for criminal complaints - in-custody arraignments filed no later than 12:00 p.m. on the last day the arraignment must be heard, out-of-custody arraignments no later than 4:00 p.m. two business days before (Rule 1900); pre-trial services by the Santa Barbara County Probation Department, Pretrial Services Unit (Rule 1902); mandatory appearances under Penal Code § 977 (Rule 1904); and special custody arraignment sessions (Rule 1906). Rules 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907 and 1908 are repealed.
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Chapter Nineteen: Criminal Rules 1900 FILING DEADLINES FOR CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS ARRAIGNMENTS 1900 FILING DEADLINES FOR CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS ARRAIGNMENTS A. New misdemeanor and felony complaints received for in-custody arraignment shall be filed no later than 12:00 p.m. on the last day that the arraignment must be heard. Example: If the last day for arraignment is scheduled for a Thursday, the complaint must be filed by 12:00 p.m. that same day. B. New misdemeanor and felony complaints received for out-of-custody arraignment shall be filed no later than 4:00 p.m. two business days before the date of the arraignment. Example: If the arraignment is scheduled for a Friday, the complaint must be filed by 4:00 p.m. on the preceding Wednesday. C. Any exception to these rules must be approved by the Judicial Officer where the arraignment will be held. Any requests for late filings will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The Judicial Officer will have the discretion to approve or deny the request. (Amended 01-01-2025) 1901 STAFFING, AVAILABILITY, PREPARATION, PROSECUTION & DEFENSE (Repealed 01-01-2025) 1902 PRE-TRIAL SERVICES The Santa Barbara County Probation Department, Pretrial Services Unit, has been designated by the court to prepare Pre-Trial reports in order to provide information and recommendations to the court about a defendant’s release from custody on one’s own recognizance, on supervised release, with the posting of an appropriate bail amount, a combination of financial and non-financial terms of release, or being held without bail. (Amended 01-01-2025) 1903 OWN RECOGNIZANCE BAIL REVIEW HEARINGS (Repealed 01-01-2025) 1904 MANDATORY APPEARANCES The presence of the defendant at arraignments and subsequent court appearances shall follow the procedures outlined in Penal Code § 977. Requests to recall a warrant shall follow the same procedures as arraignments as stated in § 977. For example, a defendant must be physically present to recall a felony warrant. If necessary to obtain a defendant’s signature or to serve the defendant with an order, the court may require the defendant’s personal presence. (Amended 01-01-2025) 1905 ENTERING NOLO CONTENDERE OR GUILTY PLEA (Repealed 01-01-2025) 1906 SPECIAL CUSTODY ARRAIGNMENT SESSIONS Under special circumstances, the court may conduct an arraignment of a prisoner at the custody facility where the prisoner is confined. All hearings must be open to the public except those hearings authorized by law to be closed. (Amended 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-98) 1907 NOTICE OF MOTION; POINTS & AUTHORITIES (Repealed 01-01-2025) 1908 DISCOVERY (Repealed 01-01-2025)
Chapter Nineteen: Criminal Rules 1900 FILING DEADLINES FOR CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS ARRAIGNMENTS 1900 FILING DEADLINES FOR CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS ARRAIGNMENTS A. New misdemeanor and felony complaints received for in-custody arraignment shall be filed no later than 12:00 p.m. on the last day that the arraignment must be heard. Example: If the last day for arraignment is scheduled for a Thursday, the compla
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Santa Barbara build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-santa-barbara/pages/forms-filing__local-rules.html (the court's Local Rules page, “Current Local Rules / Effective January 1, 2025”, as fetched 2026-10-07; 894893 bytes, sha256 1059f4db3448c727e841119aa4222d3065d08c4da61c2ab925230763ca01031a) with html-compose.py (the Orange composer) over the page's content sections, after build/ol_markers.py wrote into each ordered-list item the label the browser draws (the page sets the rules' subdivisions as HTML ordered lists, whose labels are not in its text: 327 labels - 192 decimal, 80 lower-alpha, 31 lower-roman and 24 upper-alpha - the counts the browser computed on the live page); the page's opening lines (its heading, effective date, note and links) and its closing Appendices list belong to no chapter; the rule body cut at the chapter headings. Proofs: the composer's (the multiset of non-space characters equals the sections' text less chrome), the labels are the only characters added, the labels match the browser's counts, and the cut reassembles the rule body. The page's “PDF version” link serves a book marked effective January 1, 2027 that carries rules still proposed for comment; it is held with its receipt and a review task, and the page is the source. Review note: Published as printed: Rule 1900's heading is printed twice.
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.