In every case that proceeds to appeal from a trial court’s ruling, no matter how large or how small the case happens to be, a trial court record exists. The trial court record consists of the papers and pleadings that were filed in the trial court, together with any transcripts of trial court proceedings and the exhibits and other items that were accepted into evidence while the case was pending at trial.
In some cases — say a case the trial court dismissed on the pleadings toward the outset of litigation — the trial court record may be quite small in size. In other cases — say a case that involved numerous pretrial motions followed by a four-month trial — the trial court record may be large. While a case is pending before the trial court, the record is relatively easy for the trial judge to access, because he or she may possess part of it in chambers, while the remainder is nearby in the trial court’s clerk’s office. And, typically, the trial judge has nearly the same intimate knowledge of the case as do the trial lawyers.
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