Rules Governing the Procedure for Making a Record of Civil and Criminal Court Proceedings in the 212th District Cour — Galveston County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 01/01/2023); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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No stenographic record shall be required of any proceedings that are electronically recorded. … The Court shall designate one or more persons as court recorders, whose duties shall include: a. … The reporter's record on appeal from any proceeding of which an electronic recording has been made shall be labeled to reflect clearly the numbered contents certified by the court recorder to be a clear and accurate copy of the original recording of the entire proceedings. … Any exhibits designated by the parties for inclusion in the reporter's record shall be arranged in numerical order and firmly bound together so far as practicable together with an index consisting of a brief description identifying each exhibit. … The court recorder shall file the reporter's record with the court of appeal within fifteen days after the perfection of an appeal. … Each party shall file with its brief an appendix containing a written transcription of all portions of the recorded reporter's record and a copy of all exhibits relevant to the issues raised on appeal. … Transcriptions shall be presumed to be accurate unless objection is made. … The form of the appendix and transcription shall conform to any specifications of the Supreme Court and/ or the Court of Criminal Appeals and comply with the Order Directing the Form of the Appellate Record and the Uniform Format Manual for Texas Reporters' Records. … The appellate court shall have no duty to review any part of an electronic audio or audio-visual recording and may presume that nothing omitted from the transcriptions in the appendices is relevant to any issues raised or to the disposition of the appeal. … If a party is unable to afford costs, the court recorder must transcribe or have transcribed the recorded reporter's record and file the transcription as that party's appendix, along with all exhibits. g. … Should any dispute arise after the reporter's record or appendices are filed as to whether an electronic audio or audio-visual recording or any transcription of it accurately disclosed what occurred in the trial court, the appellate court may resolve the dispute by reviewing the audio or audio-visual recording, or submit the matter to the trial court which shall, after notice to the parties and hearing, settle the dispute and make the reporter's record or transcription conform to what occurred in the trial court. … The expense of appendices shall be taxed as costs at the rate prescribed by law. … Except to the extent inconsistent with these rules, all other statutes and rules governing the procedures in civil and criminal actions shall continue to apply to those proceedings of which a record is made by electronic audio or audio-visual recording Signed November 1, 2022 ~.:LQ~ Patricia Grady Presiding Judge 212th Judicial District Court
Reviewer note: Operative mandatory-language provisions quoted verbatim from the registered document; the full document (sha256 8c2cd7bb8b39…) is the controlling text.
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