Fourth Judicial District Court, Colorado Filing Rules

The Court Reporter or Division Court Judicial Assistant must upload the receipt, and the introducing party must retain a digital copy of the photographs.

Except for newly released appellate opinions, parties are discouraged from first citing legal authority at the hearing.

Every Rule 56 reply brief must comply with the specifically listed reply-content requirements.

Motions requesting specific relief must include a statement about conferring with opposing counsel or making a good-faith effort to confer and provide opposing counsel’s position.

Counsel must confer about redacting audio and video exhibits before trial to minimize editing delays.

Written treatment plans must be filed and served at least seven days before the dispositional hearing.

Plea agreements must be filed as soon as possible and no later than one business day before sentencing.

The responding party must file a short response no later than two business days before the discovery status conference.

Written motions must be filed no later than 10 days before the hearing.

All parties must disclose good-faith witness lists and exhibit lists at least seven days before trial.

Attorney-submitted exhibits must be uploaded to CCE in their original format, preferably grayscale, before or within 21 days after a hearing or trial.

Substantive motions in limine and responses must be emailed to the Division and electronically filed.

Proposed defense instructions must be submitted electronically to the court and prosecution before the close of evidence.

Proposed jury instructions must be electronically filed in an editable format.

Each party must bring four hard-copy sets of exhibits, label them according to party role, and number every exhibit page.

The exhibit designation must be legible when electronically filed.

The body text must use a type size no smaller than 12 points.

All plea paperwork must be one-sided.

Pro se settings must be arranged by telephone with Division 9 Judicial Assistants.

If Division 12 hearings are canceled because of a courthouse closure, parties must call the next day to leave a message requesting a reset.

Parties must call the division's main line at 719-452-5444 and leave a voicemail, after which the clerk will conference both parties when able.

Contact Division 24 staff by email to determine whether an afternoon domestic-relations contested hearing will proceed or be rescheduled when bad weather delays the courthouse opening.

The moving party must call the Division 15 clerk within five days after filing the motion to set the discovery matter for a hearing.

A QRTP assessment must be served on counsel of record, the pro se parent, guardian or legal custodian, the child’s Guardian ad Litem or attorney, and the CASA if assigned.

Counsel intending to rely on newly released case law should provide copies to opposing counsel and the court before the hearing begins.

A party requesting relevant documents from the opposing party must complete, file, and send Form JDF 185 SC.

A motion to reduce bond will be heard only after proper notice to the District Attorney.

The Joint Trial Management Certificate is limited to 15 pages, excluding the header, signature lines, and certificate of service.

The page limits include all listed briefing components and other matters but exclude the certificate of service.

The District Attorney's late endorsements will be considered only after a proper motion, notice, and hearing.

Before filing any motion, counsel must discuss the filing directly with opposing counsel, and letters, faxes, emails, or relayed conversations do not satisfy the requirement.

Before filing a motion, parties or counsel must have an actual good-faith conversation about disputed issues unless conferral is impossible.

Parties must engage in meaningful conferral before filing a disputed motion; an unreturned voicemail or email does not qualify, and a motion lacking evidence of conferral will be denied.

Parties must confer meaningfully before filing a disputed motion, and the motion will be denied if the conferral is not evident; an unreturned voicemail or email does not qualify.

The QRTP assessment must be filed as a suppressed document.

If circumstances have changed or additional information should be provided to the court, the local jail must file another suppressed Affidavit with the Petition.

At sentencing, the district attorney must be prepared to state the requested restitution amount or establish good cause for an extension.

The Court will not grant a continuance requested on the trial day; continuance motions must be handled before or at the pretrial readiness hearing.

Absent extraordinary circumstances, the Court will not accept a joint continuance motion or grant a requested continuance on the day of trial.

Absent extraordinary circumstances, continuance motions will not be accepted on the trial day and must be addressed by the pretrial readiness hearing or criminal docket.

Exhibits should be submitted in one filing when that is possible.

Documentary exhibits must be marked and uploaded into the Court Filing System as one submission when possible, with the filing party’s designation.

A movant may not file a summary-judgment motion and a separate brief; all argument and authority must be combined in the motion.

The rule concerns removing filing fees in closed civil cases.

A separate hard-copy judge set of exhibits is unnecessary when all exhibits have been electronically filed.