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General order of the 220th District Court and County Court of Comanche County on electronic and oversized exhibits: audio/video media must be in a court-of-appeals-acceptable format (.avi, .wmv, .wav, .mpg, .mid, .asf, .mpeg, .mp1, .mp2, .mp3, .mp4, .m4v, .ogg, .oga, .ogv, .webm) with audio files ≤100 MB and video ≤5 GB (split and labeled if larger) and only the offered segments; oversized exhibits need 8½×11 copies for the record; text documents must be searchable, unprotected PDFs; the sponsoring party must supply an acceptable-format exhibit on appeal.
Applies to all parties offering audio, video, electronic-media, oversized or text-document exhibits in the 220th District Court sitting in Comanche County and the Comanche County Court. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
GENERAL ORDER IN THE DISTRICT COURT AND COUNTY COURT OF COMANCHE COUNTY, TEXAS — ORDER REGARDING EVIDENCE. Effective immediately, the following order shall apply to all parties when seeking to introduce an audio, video, CD, DVD, or other electronic media storage devices. The Court ORDERS that the sponsoring party of such media exhibits shall ensure that it is in a format that may be uploaded and accepted by the appropriate Court of Appeals applying its guidelines at the time of the admission of the exhibit. As of the date of the entry of this order, electronic evidence must be submitted in one of the following file formats: .avi, .wmv, .wav, .mpg, .mid, .asf, .mpeg, .mp1, .mp2, .mp3, .mp4, .m4v, .ogg, .oga, .ogv, .webm. In the event that the exhibit is not in one of the above referenced formats, or in a format acceptable to the appropriate Court of Appeals, the sponsoring party shall convert the item to an acceptable format. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that audio exhibits may not exceed 100 MB in any single file; video files may not exceed 5 GB in any single file. In the event that the audio or video file exceeds these size limits, the file shall be divided into separate files that do not exceed the stated limits and shall be labeled (both on the outside of the exhibit and the file name on the media storage device) with the following format as an example: "Exhibit __ — Defendant Smith Statement — 1 of 2". Further, only segments offered as an exhibit can be on the audio or video media admitted as an exhibit (for example, for a disc of jail phone calls with 50 calls, if only certain calls are being offered, copy only those calls onto a separate disk and offer that disk as an exhibit, not all 50 calls). IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all oversized or enlarged exhibits shall be accompanied by 8-1/2" x 11" copies, with a marked exhibit sticker on the front, which the court reporter shall retain for the record on appeal; any exhibits that the party desires to utilize in an oversized or enlarged form shall be an exact replica of the exhibit that was admitted; the oversized or enlarged exhibit shall only be utilized for demonstrative purposes to the fact finder, and the 8-1/2" x 11" copy will become the official exhibit for record purposes. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that each computer file of a text document must be submitted in text-searchable Portable Document Format (PDF), compatible with the latest version of Adobe Reader; the computer file must not be password protected, encrypted, or protected by rights management; all scanned exhibits shall be made searchable using optical-character-recognition (OCR) software, such as Adobe Acrobat. In the event that a case is on appeal and the Court of Appeals cannot open an exhibit that was offered, the sponsoring party that offered the exhibit will be responsible for providing the court reporter with the exhibit that is in the acceptable format. Signed this the 20th day of August 2024 by Judge Shaun Carpenter, 220th District Court, and Judge Stephanie Davis, County Court.
The Court ORDERS that the sponsoring party of such media exhibits shall ensure that it is in a format that may be uploaded and accepted by the appropriate Court of Appeals applying its guidelines at the time of the admission of the exhibit.
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 (completeness fix F3) from p. 6 of the county-site document's text layer read in full (the same custody file as the family standing orders). Bound county-wide (220th District Court and County Court of Comanche County); no judge join.
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