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The county-wide media-exhibit order signed by all five Kaufman County district and county-court-at-law judges: audio/video exhibits must be in a format the court of appeals can upload and accept — audio files capped at 100 MB, video at 2 GB, valid extensions MP3, MP4, and WAV (the sponsoring party converts anything else); ONLY the offered segments may be on the tendered media (a 50-call jail DVD must be cut down to the offered calls); and if the 5th Court of Appeals cannot open an exhibit on appeal, the sponsoring party must re-supply it in the acceptable format.
Texas > Kaufman County > the 86th, 422nd, and 489th District Courts and County Courts at Law Nos. 1 and 2 — signed July 1, 2024 by Judges Casey Blair, Shelton Gibbs IV, Tracy Gray, Bobby Rich, and Joseph Russell; filed with the District Clerk July 1, 2024 (Index-24-465). Both district-court pages also direct parties to this order before submitting any evidence.
"When introducing an audio or video CD/DVD/Media storage device, the Court orders that the sponsoring party of the media shall ensure it is in a format that may be uploaded and accepted by the appropriate court of appeals and their guidelines. Audio exhibits may not exceed 100mb. Video files may not exceed 2GB. A list of valid extensions that the media must be submitted are: MP3, MP4, and WAV files. If an exhibit has any of those extensions, the sponsoring party does not have to convert it. If it does not have any of those extensions, the sponsoring party shall convert it. Only segments offered as an exhibit can be on the audio or video media. (i.e., a DVD 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). If at any time in the future the case is on appeal and the court of appeals cannot open the exhibit that was offered, the sponsoring party that offered the exhibit will be responsible to provide the court reporter with the exhibit that is in the acceptable format as required by the 5th Court of Appeals."
Reviewer note: Image-only signed scan read through the vision lane (1 page); the order text quoted verbatim (the order's own word choice, including "the mediation must be submitted" rendered as printed in the extensions sentence — read from the page as "the media"). Dual custody: registered instrument and the county's own postings at DocumentCenter/View/7360 (86th page, byte-identical 197,399 B) and View/8321 (422nd page, 197,398 B — a one-byte serving variant of the same scan). Composed benchpath-ajr1-p6b.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 1, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 2, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.