Search Yuma County Court Dockets

Searching the Yuma County Court Docket

Know what you need before you type anything. For scheduled hearings, there is a direct route. It is the free Colorado Judicial Docket Search filtered for Yuma County. It takes a date plus a case, party, attorney, or location filter. The Judicial Branch will not run on a date alone. For the dated history of filings and minute orders, use the state-listed CoCourts service. You can also ask the Clerk of Court, Yuma County Combined Court for a Register of Action, often shortened to ROA. Want the pleading, order, decree, judgment, ticket, or a certified copy itself? That must come from the filing court.

Confirm the court level first. Yuma County District Court holds felonies, larger civil cases, domestic relations, juvenile matters, and probate. Yuma County Court handles misdemeanors and state traffic matters. It also takes small claims, protection orders, and civil claims below the statewide limit. City ordinance cases can stay with the Yuma or Wray municipal court. Then use this sequence:

1. Read the notice or citation for the court name and full case number.
2. Select District 13 and Yuma County in the free docket search.
3. Add the case number, party name, or attorney details along with the date.
4. Read the newest non-vacated setting and note the court division.
5. Contact the correct clerk for the ROA, filed document, or certified copy.

The court's own local page is the best starting point too. Its Yuma County trial-court overview covers the courthouse, notices, contacts, and the county-filtered schedule search.

From there, Yuma County docket users reach the courthouse, local notices, contacts, and the county-filtered schedule search.

Two Yuma County Docket Views

Colorado uses "docket" for its list of scheduled events. The broader case chronology goes by a different name, the Register of Action. Each view answers a different question. A free docket row can show where and when a matter is set. An ROA can show more. It can show that a complaint was filed, a motion followed, a setting changed, and a disposition was entered. Neither view supplies the full text of every filed document.

The split guards against a common mistake. A blank calendar result does not prove there is no case. The event may sit outside the chosen date, belong to a city court, be restricted from remote view, or appear only in the broader case file. For exact language, identify the docket entry first. Then order the named document from the clerk.

Inside a Yuma County Court Docket

Identifiers come first in a Yuma County court docket or ROA. The case number carries three parts. It ties together a year, a case class, and a sequence. Court and division fields show the trial level. That tells you which level controls the file. Party roles and attorney entries show who appears in the public matter, subject to access limits. From there, the chronology lists filings, minute orders, settings, and outcome events in date order.

Start reading from the newest entry. A motion is only a request. The docket shows no ruling until an order resolves it. A setting is not a result. "Vacated" usually removes an event from the calendar without dismissing the case by itself. When a line says "minute order," request the order to learn the court's exact ruling.

Yuma County Docket Number Codes

Colorado case numbers make a docket search more precise. The first four digits state the filing year, and the letters identify the case class. The remaining sequence separates that case from others in the same class and year. The live dropdown controls the valid choices. Use its current label instead of guessing a code.

CR

District Court criminal matters, generally felonies.

M

County Court misdemeanor matters.

T

State traffic matters in County Court.

CV or C

District or County civil matters, based on jurisdiction.

S

Small-claims cases in County Court.

DR or PR

Domestic-relations or probate matters, often with tighter access.

The free form splits the number into year, case class, and sequence fields. Enter all three when known, then add Yuma County. A full number sharply cuts same-name matches. It also keeps Arizona search results out of the process. If a felony complaint began in County Court before moving to District Court, ask whether a second case number or transfer entry exists.

Courts That Keep Dockets in Yuma County

One unified state clerk supports two trial levels at the Yuma County Courthouse. Municipal courts are separate custodians. Note that the county clerk and recorder is not the court clerk and should not receive a request for a District or County Court case document.

The Judicial Branch explains the statewide split on its Colorado County Court jurisdiction page.

That jurisdiction map helps when the case class or ticket does not make the filing court clear.

Yuma County Combined Court Dockets

The Clerk of Court serves the Yuma County Combined Court. The office keeps both District Court and County Court files. Leslie A. Laird is listed as Clerk of Court, Jury Commissioner, and Probate Registrar. The office can identify an accessible case. It can provide an official ROA, process document copies, explain whether an older file is off-site, and certify a record. Staff cannot give legal advice. The official Yuma judges and staff listing confirms the local clerk and court contacts.

The roster covers more than one courthouse. Yuma County sits in the 13th Judicial District, and its judges may hear matters in any of the district's seven counties, so a case docketed in Yuma County can carry a judge based elsewhere in the district.

The clerk counter posts no regular hours, so call before travel. Ask about current hours, identification, record access, and whether a courthouse workstation is available. Jurors should use the court's Yuma County jury information rather than a case docket.

How to Find Court Dates and Settings

Start with the paperwork in hand. A summons, citation, notice, or order carries the court name, case number, division, date, and time you need. Compare those details against the free Judicial Docket Search. Pick Yuma County and add a case, party, or attorney filter. Widen the date range if no row appears. A municipal ticket may still need a call to the city court. Settings tell a story over time. An arraignment or pretrial conference can land there. So can a motions hearing, trial, or review, all on the same Yuma County docket. Continued means reset to a later date. Vacated means dropped from the schedule, though the case itself may not be over. For a full field-by-field route, see the Yuma County court dates page.

Calendar flow: Notice › Docket Search › newest setting › clerk confirmation › case-specific order.

Printed schedules go stale fast. Same-day changes, closure notices, and judge's orders can override an old printout, and a phone call alone never continues a hearing, because only the court can approve a new date.

Yuma County Dockets Default In Person

Yuma Combined Court expects appearances in person unless a court order says otherwise. A Webex link does not change that. Neither does an old Yuma virtual-courtroom notice. The current Yuma County court docket answers to the case-specific order and the newest setting. That rule carries real weight in a rural county. Before a long drive, compare the docket with the notice and call the clerk about any mismatch. Ask whether a later order authorized remote attendance. If a setting was reset, get the new date from the court rather than trusting an earlier calendar line.

Weekend bond hearings are different. They cover custodial bond matters outside normal weekdays, not every public Yuma County hearing, and they sit apart from the ordinary trial calendar.

Public Access to Court Dockets

Colorado court records are open in general. Remote access is narrower than what you can read at the courthouse. Seals, redaction, and limits for protected case types are all permitted. Juvenile and adoption files can be restricted. So can dependency and neglect, mental-health, paternity, and most domestic-relations material. Presentence reports and juror questionnaires stay outside normal public view. So do treatment records, deposited wills, and protected personal identifiers.

The Colorado Open Records Act governs many local records. Judicial Branch administrative records answer to a different rule, PAIRR 2. Court case files follow the court-record rules above. That split matters when a city clerk holds the meeting minutes while the municipal court holds the citation file.

Missing Yuma County Docket Results

A blank result has many possible causes. The name may be spelled differently. The year, class, or sequence could be wrong. The date range may simply miss the next event, or a city citation may never reach the state portal at all. Older records can sit off-site. A case or document may also be sealed, suppressed, or limited from remote display. Work the fallback chain before concluding anything. Check the court printed on the source document, then search the full case number with Yuma County. For a city matter, try the municipal court. For a state file, contact Yuma Combined Court by phone, email, mail, or at the counter. Ask for the Register of Action when the case history is the goal, or name the exact order or pleading when its text is what you need. The Colorado Judicial data and reports collection shows the broader reporting system that surrounds court activity.

Statistics describe court activity in the aggregate. They cannot replace a named case search or prove that a particular case exists.

Docket Records at the Clerk's Office

The clerk holds the official record. Behind any Yuma County court docket sit the clerk's copies of every filing. Requests can travel several routes. Use the statewide online form, the downloadable form by mail or as directed, email or phone contact, or the courthouse counter. Ask first about terminal access. The local page does not promise a dedicated public workstation. Give the full case number, party names, filing year, Yuma location, and exact document title when known. Copy fees are published. An electronic or coin copy page runs 25 cents, and a court-produced paper copy runs 75 cents. A nonparty name search with an ROA costs $5. Certified or exemplified documents cost $20 per document, and research and redaction run $30 per hour after the first hour, billed in 15-minute increments. The two forms differ on timing and copy wording. Ask for an estimate.

Never mail cash; follow the payment method supplied in the clerk's response.

Yuma County Dockets Across 2,370 Miles

Yuma County covers roughly 2,370 square miles of Colorado's northeastern plains. The courthouse sits in Wray. Yuma is still the largest town. Towns here sit far apart, so checking the online docket schedule or calling the clerk beats a long drive. A trip across the county can eat most of a day.

The county's own comprehensive plan sketches the scale. It spans about 60 miles north to south and 40 miles east to west. That is a lot of ground for one courthouse to serve.

Caseload questions have an official answer too. The Judicial Branch annual statistical reports publish filing and disposition figures for each judicial district. That gives the statewide view of court activity.

Those reports do not break out a current Yuma-only caseload total. So population alone cannot tell you how busy a docket is here. The numbers that hold up are geographic and demographic. They are not a measure of court volume.

The 2024 State Demography Office estimates count 10,026 people countywide. Of those, 3,433 live in the City of Yuma. Another 2,410 live in Wray, and 239 in Eckley. The Census Bureau's Yuma County profile offers its own separate vintage. Those figures are why only three city docket pages appear. Every other place in the county falls below them in size.

Yuma County Court Dockets by City

Only three municipalities are incorporated here. Yuma and Wray both run municipal courts for ordinance and charter matters. Eckley posts no separate municipal court docket. Wherever you start, the document that charged you controls the first lookup. Cases that begin inside city limits still follow the County and District Court split. The split covers misdemeanors, traffic, civil claims, and felonies.

Federal cases never land in a Yuma County docket. They sit with the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the federal bankruptcy court, or an appellate panel. The Tenth Circuit's official site covers that side of the system.

That federal track runs entirely outside the Colorado Judicial Branch. It will not surface a Yuma County traffic, civil, or criminal state case.

Yuma County Docket Judge Rotation

Colorado's 13th Judicial District spans seven counties. They are Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma. District judges rotate among them. A Yuma County court docket can therefore list a judge from another county entirely. The judge's home division and contact sit there too. Rely on the filing location and case number to find which clerk holds the record.

Chief Judge Carl S. McGuire III heads the district. Kristei R. Jones presides over Yuma County Court in Division 7. Jennifer Elliott serves as court executive, and Leslie A. Laird is the unified local clerk. Assignments shift. Check the current Judicial Branch listing before you address a filing or appearance to any one person.

Transfers reshape a docket too. A felony complaint may open in County Court and later carry a District Court number. An appeal generates notices, a transmitted record, and its own appellate case number. Does the chronology hint at a move? Run a case lookup in both the sending and receiving court.

Map and Directions to the Yuma County Courthouse

District Court and County Court records for Yuma County are both kept at the Yuma County Courthouse, 310 Ash Street, Suite L, in Wray, the county seat. The building houses the single Yuma Combined Court clerk counter, the place to request an official Register of Actions, inspect an accessible case file, or ask about certification. Yuma County covers roughly 2,370 square miles, so confirming a docket by phone before a long rural drive is worthwhile.

Regular clerk-counter hours, security screening, parking, and public-terminal availability were not published on the official local page, so call 970-592-6120 before traveling. Appearances are in person unless a case-specific order permits otherwise, and an older Webex notice does not by itself authorize remote attendance.