Superior court records, including criminal and civil cases, can be searched online or in person during business hours. Some records may be archived and require a fee to access. Criminal cases can be found by searching a defendant index, while some documents may be confidential and require a connection to the case to view. Higher court records also include court records with helpful information for locating case file numbers.
Superior court records are often publicly available for search on the court’s website or in person during court business hours. The records available for review include an index of defendants in criminal cases and of both parties in civil cases, court records, and judicial records. Some of the superior court records are archived and may not be available online or at all after a certain period of time. Superior court clerks may charge a fee to inspect older records due to the additional search required to locate unpreserved files with more recent cases. Individuals may need the case number, defendant’s name, or the name of one of the parties to retrieve records online or for the clerk to retrieve records in higher court.
Criminal cases are prosecuted by the lawyer or prosecutor on behalf of the government, and as a result the records are often filed with the defendant’s name. Individuals can often locate criminal records in the region where defendants were prosecuted by looking up a defendant index, which indicates the defendant’s first and last name and the number of court records associated with that name. Superior court records in criminal cases are similar to civil cases in that they contain all of the court proceedings for the case. For example, someone might be looking for statements that have been taken by the prosecutor and the defendant in the criminal case he wants to investigate. Criminal case calendars are often available for the public to search and contain a list of all hearings, dates, and names of defendants.
Superior court case documents are all briefs and other court documents filed with the court before, during, and after the trial. Some superior court records are not available for public viewing because the documents are considered confidential documents. For example, some superior courts do not make records of divorce, illegal imprisonment, and probate cases publicly available. Interested parties may need to apply to the clerk of the higher court to view such documents and demonstrate a connection to the case in order to view them.
The records of the higher court also include the court records. The file information is often helpful in locating the case file number. It often contains a list of the parties’ names, court hearing dates, and file numbers.
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