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431st District Court (Denton County) — Exhibit Rules (confer 15 minutes before; pre-numbered exhibits, numbers only; binder with tabs; USB copy for the court reporter; witness and exhibit lists by 5 p.m. the business day before trial)

High confidence· verified September 6, 2026Trial ExhibitsExhibit Rules, 431st District Court, Denton County (Cori Warren, CSR, Official Court Reporter; Judge Jim Johnson) — posted under FAQs, Rules & Forms on the court's page

Summary

The 431st District Court's exhibit rules (issued through official court reporter Cori Warren for Judge Jim Johnson): parties are ordered to confer at least 15 minutes before a hearing or trial on stipulations to exhibits; every exhibit is pre-marked on the front of its first page with a number only (no letters or letter-number combinations), no duplicate numbers, and exhibits need not be offered in sequence; more than a few exhibits go to the court in a tabbed binder; all exhibits are also brought on a USB drive left with the court reporter and updated if exhibits change; audio and video must play in Windows Media Player or VLC, with paper as PDF, audio as MP3, video as MP4, documents text-searchable and 100 MB or less, recordings 2 GB or less, the party supplying its own laptop; video-deposition recordings played in court are entered as exhibits; the witness and exhibit list is e-mailed to the court reporter by 5 p.m. the business day before trial begins.

Applies to

Texas > Denton County > 431st District Court — all parties offering exhibits at hearings or trial.

Source of truth

"1. The parties are ordered by the Court to confer at least 15 minutes prior to hearing/trial to discuss possible stipulations, whenever possible, to the admission of exhibits to which there is no reasonable basis for objection. 2. All exhibits shall be premarked/prenumbered in advance of hearing/trial on the front of the first page of each exhibit. Please make sure the exhibits match up with any

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, 1 p, 2,023 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim; undated; names Judge Jim Johnson (current bench per OCA — spine tx-jim-s-johnson). Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton (own-site lane).