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Rules Governing the Procedure for Making a Record of Civil and Criminal Court Proceedings in the 56th District Court — Galveston County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 08/25/2023); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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RULES GOVERNING THE PROCEDURE FOR MAKING A RECORD OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE 56TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS BY ELECTRONIC RECORDING 1. Application. The following rules govern the procedures in the 56th District Court in Galveston County, Texas, in proceedings — including criminal and civil matters — in which a record is made by electronic audio or audio-visual recording, as well as appellate records prepared from such proceedings. 2. Duties of Court Recorders. 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. Ensuring that the recording system is functioning properly throughout the proceeding and that a complete, distinct, clear and transcribable recording is made; b. Making a detailed, legible log for all proceedings being recorded, indexed by the date and location of each event being recorded, and showing the number and style of the proceeding before the court, the correct name of each person speaking, the nature of the proceeding (e.g. voir dire, opening, examination of witnesses, cross-examination, argument, bench conferences, whether in the presence of the jury, etc.), the time of the day of each event and, the offer, admission or exclusion of all exhibits; c. Filing with the clerk the original log and exhibits after a proceeding ends, and within ten days, delivering to the court a certified copy of the recording of the proceeding that is appropriately labeled as required herein, to be stored at the court; d. Storing or providing for storing of the electronic audio or audio-visual recording to ensure it is preserved as required by law and accessible; e. Prohibiting or providing for prohibition of access by any person to the original recording without written order of the presiding judge of the court; f. Preparing or obtaining a certified copy of the original recording of any proceeding, any of the exhibits the parties to the appeal designate, and certified copies of the original log, upon full payment of the charge imposed therefor, at the request of any person entitled to such recording, or at the direction of the judge of the court, or at the direction of any appellate judge who is presiding over any matter involving the same proceeding, subject to the laws of this state, rules of procedure and the instructions of the presiding Judge of the court; and, g. Performing such other duties as may be directed by the presiding judge or the appellate court presiding over the case and prescribed by the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure and the Uniform Format Manual for Texas Reporters' Records. 3. Reporter's Record. 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. 4. Time for Filing. The court recorder shall file the reporter's record with the court of appeal within fifteen days after the perfection of an appeal. No other filing deadlines as set in the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure are changed. 5. Appendix. 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. 6. Presumption. 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. 7. Supplemental Appendix. The appellate court may direct a party to file a supplemental appendix containing a written transcription of additional portions of the recorded reporter's record. 8. Inability to Afford. 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. 9. Accuracy. Any inaccuracies in the transcriptions of the recorded reporter's record may be corrected by agreement of the parties. 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. 10. Costs. The expense of appendices shall be taxed as costs at the rate prescribed by law. The appellate court may disallow the cost of portions of appendices that it considers surplusage or that does not conform to any specifications prescribed by the Supreme Court and/or Court of Criminal Appeals. 11. Other Provisions. 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 Date Signed: August 25, 2023 [signature] Lonnie Cox, Presiding Judge, 56th District Court
RULES GOVERNING THE PROCEDURE FOR MAKING A RECORD OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE 56TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS BY ELECTRONIC RECORDING 1. Application. The following rules govern the procedures in the 56th District Court in Galveston County, Texas, in proceedings — including criminal and civil matters — in which a record is made by electronic audio or audio
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed verbatim by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170-180 dpi and read this session); the registered document (sha256 0abe11d0995b…) is the controlling text. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 0abe11d0995b..., 4 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]