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393rd District Court (Denton County) — Exhibit Rules (pre-marked numbered exhibits matching the exchanged list; transcripts of audio; oversized exhibits with 8½×11 copies; digital copies to the court reporter by 5 p.m. the business day before in the Uniform Format Manual formats)

High confidence· verified September 6, 2026Trial ExhibitsExhibit Rules, 393rd District Court, Denton County (Kimberly Buchanan, CSR, Official Court Reporter; 5 pp) — posted on the court's page

Summary

The 393rd District Court's five-page exhibit rules (official court reporter Kimberly Buchanan): all parties pre-mark and pre-number exhibits on the front of the first page matching the exhibit list exchanged with all parties, the court and the reporter; stipulations encouraged, admissibility otherwise ruled on when offered; numbers not letters, offered in any order; audio or audio-visual recordings played in court are entered as exhibits and no contemporaneous verbatim record is made unless the court orders; audio recordings require a verbatim written transcript identifying each speaker (highlight key portions beyond five pages) and audiovisual equipment must be tested the week before or its use is not allowed; parties mark their own unmarked exhibits; oversized exhibits come with marked 8½×11 copies; demonstrative aids may be used by all parties and not marked without permission; digital copies of all exhibits go to the court reporter on a flash drive, DVD, e-mail or other device at the pretrial hearing or by 5 p.m. the business day before trial, in the Supreme Court's Uniform Format Manual formats — text-searchable unprotected PDFs, photographs at least 2,048×1,536 pixels, separator pages where the number is not on the image, MP3 audio not over 100 MB and MP4 video not over 5 GB, broken into multiple files if longer.

Applies to

Texas > Denton County > 393rd District Court — all parties offering exhibits at hearings or trial.

Source of truth

"Paper Copies for Use in Court — 1. All parties shall pre-mark and pre-number any exhibits they anticipate offering into evidence in advance of trial or hearing on the front of the first page of the exhibit. The exhibits marked, their description and number must match up with the current exhibit list which has been exchanged with all parties, the Court, and the court reporter. 2. The parties are e

Official source: Denton County District Courts — dentoncounty.gov (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 9, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 6, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr8-denton-ownsite-2026-09-06

Reviewer note: Own-site document (text layer, 5 pp, 4,818 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim with the audio and video technical sub-paragraphs abridged by ellipsis; undated; does not name the judge — joined to Judge Karen Alexander as the current bench posting the rules (the court's page names her; the review inference is recorded here). Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton (own-site lane).