Local Rule 5.9: Trial and Hearing Exhibits

Rule 5.9 Trial and Hearing Exhibits

(A) Tendering and Maintaining Exhibits. An exhibit tendered or received in evidence during a trial or hearing must be delivered to the Clerk, and the Clerk must maintain custody of the exhibit, with these exceptions:

(1) the Court may order otherwise;

(2) a sensitive exhibit—such as a weapon, drug, cash, pornography, or thing of high value—may be retained by the law enforcement agency or party who offered it, and in that event the agency or party must maintain the integrity of the exhibit;

(3) the Clerk may release an exhibit temporarily to an assigned judge, the judge's staff, or the court reporter.

(B) Retrieving Exhibits After the Litigation. Within 90 days after a case is closed and all appeals have been exhausted, the party who offered an exhibit must retrieve it from the Clerk. The Clerk may destroy an exhibit not timely retrieved.