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Solano County Superior Court — Department 5 (Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones) Standing Order Regarding Pretrials and Offers Presented by the District Attorney's Office (Miscellaneous Order MISC-23-2022, effective September 26, 2022)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 5 (Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones) Standing Order Regarding Pretrials and Offers Presented by the District Attorney's Office (Miscellaneous Order MISC-23-2022, effective September 26, 2022), Superior Court of California, County of Solano; posted on the court's Local Rules of Court page (https://solano.courts.ca.gov/general-information/local-rules-court) at https://solano.courts.ca.gov/system/files/miscellaneous-order-misc-23-2022-standing-order-re-pretrials-and-offers-dept-5.pdf, fetched 2026-10-09.

Summary

Department Five's standing order: effective Monday, September 26, 2022, only two pre-trials are allowed per case; five days before the first pre-trial the District Attorney's Office presents an offer to opposing counsel, who reviews it with the client, and both counsel meet and confer.

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > Solano County > Superior Court of California, County of Solano > Department 5

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SOLANO DEPARTMENT FIVE ***** In Regards: Pretrials and Offers made by District Attorney’s Office in Department 5 Case No. M-23-2022 STANDING ORDER REGARDING: PRETRIALS AND OFFERS PRESENTED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE IN DEPARTMENT FIVE Department Five of the Superior Court of CA, County of Solano, HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: Effective Monday, September 26, 20

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Solano — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: September 26, 2022
Last verified: October 8, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-solano-2026-10-09

Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-09 (California T4 Solano build 2026-10-09) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-solano/docs/miscellaneous-order-misc-23-2022-standing-order-re-pretrials-and-offers-dept-5.pdf (245399 bytes, sha256 6e629a904bc280bb39dfeb96a81776be30cfbb6108ca42b1d46db358a30a9ec8; 1 page; a scan, scanned page images with an invisible OCR text layer): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi; checked against two machine readings never published (RapidOCR on each page and the file's own text layer where it has one): every 6-word window of the transcription looked up, and the 4 spans the readings do not hold - at the caption's cells, handwriting, page breaks, footnotes and section signs, where the readings run the parts in another order or misread them - read again on the page images (evidence/vision-check-2026-10-09-resolved.txt). The clerk's filed stamp, the signatures and seals and the pleading paper's line numbers are not part of the text (a handwritten date or line is carried where it fills the order's own text); the transcription's closing note, which describes them, is not published. Attached to Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones: the card is Department 5's, where the court's Judicial Directory page (no effective date printed) seats Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones.