Greene County Courts, Indiana Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Pleadings and papers filed by fax must be letter size.

Pleadings and papers filed by fax shall be letter size.

CRITICAL

Non-documentary and oversized exhibits must remain with the trial court or its administrative agency and must not be sent to the appellate courts during an appeal.

Non-documentary and oversized exhibits shall not be sent to the appellate level courts, but shall remain in the custody of the trial court or trial court administrative agency during the appeal.

CRITICAL

All papers presented for filing must be flat and unfolded.

All papers presented for filing shall be flat and unfolded.

CRITICAL

A party may show contaminated evidence or pass its photographs to jurors, but the evidence itself must not be handled or passed to jurors or sent to the jury room.

A party may show contaminated evidence or pass photographs of it to jurors, but no such evidence, however contained, shall be handled or passed to jurors or sent to the jury room.

WARNING

Court reporters should maintain a log of retained evidence and scheduled disposition date, and evidence should be held in a secure area.

Court reporters should maintain a log of retained evidence and scheduled disposition date, and evidence should be held in a secure area.

WARNING

Jury administrators must use a two-tier notice and summons consistent with Jury Rule 4(b).

A two-tier notice and summons, consistent with Jury Rule 4(b), shall be used by the jury administrators.

WARNING

Under no circumstances should guns, drugs, currency, or other dangerous or valuable items be included in appellate records.

Under no circumstances should guns, drugs, currency, or other dangerous or valuable items be included in appellate records.

WARNING

Duplicated interrogatory forms may not be filed or served unless their interrogatories are consecutively numbered and applicable to the case; the rule also states an exception when the case or number of parties makes such forms necessary and feasible.

No duplicated forms containing interrogatories shall be filed or served upon a party unless all interrogatories on such forms are consecutively numbered and applicable to the case in which the same are filed and served. The intent and purpose of this rule is to prohibit the filing of duplicated forms of interrogatories except where the nature of the case or number of the parties makes the use of such forms necessary and feasible.

INFO

Photographs of exhibits may be included in the volume of documentary exhibits.

Photographs of any exhibit may be included in the volume of documentary exhibits.