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Yuma County Criminal Court Cases

Yuma County criminal court cases divide by charge and source of law. Yuma County District Court hears felonies and other district-level matters. Yuma County Court ordinarily handles state misdemeanors, traffic cases, and lower-jurisdiction matters. Both sit as Yuma County Combined Court in Suite L of the courthouse at 310 Ash Street in Wray. The Colorado Judicial Branch clerk, not the elected Clerk and Recorder in Suite F, keeps these judicial files. That distinction matters when a reader asks for a docket, judgment, or certified copy.

Wray Municipal Court and City of Yuma Municipal Court keep city-ordinance cases outside the Combined Court file. A city citation may never appear as a state CR case. Start with the issuing law on the citation or complaint. State charges point to Combined Court, while a Wray or Yuma code violation points to that city's clerk. The court file tracks prosecution after filing; it is not the arresting officer's incident narrative.

Yuma County Court Layers

A quick comparison prevents a request from landing at the wrong desk. Felony classes 1 through 6 and drug felonies belong in District Court. Most state misdemeanor classes 1 and 2 belong in County Court. Petty and traffic matters can depend on the issuing law, while city-code cases remain municipal. The same person may have files in more than one court because each prosecution is tied to its own charge and jurisdiction.

The CBI record FAQs add statewide criminal-history context, but CBI does not replace the court custodian. The official court file is the best source for the filed charge and final judicial result.

The official courthouse location page shows the public contact point for these court layers.

This view anchors the court search at the Wray courthouse rather than at a city police or county recorder office.

Searching Yuma County Case Records

The free Yuma-filtered Judicial Branch Docket Search is the first online stop. It is a calendar tool, not a complete document archive. Search by a party, case number, attorney, court, or date, then treat the result as a lead. A hearing row does not prove a conviction or reveal every filed paper. Use the case number to ask the Yuma County Combined Court clerk for the register of actions or a named public document.

1. Open the direct Yuma docket page and keep County set to Yuma. Select the 13th Judicial District or Yuma courthouse when a narrower filter helps.
2. Try the full case number first. Otherwise use the individual party mode and enter the first and last name.
3. For a case number, enter the four-digit year, case class such as CR, M, or T, and numeric sequence.
4. Read the date, hearing type, location, courtroom, and appearance fields. Export or print the results if a working copy is useful.
5. Send the case number and exact document request through the official Judicial Branch record-request form, or contact Suite L for inspection and copy terms.

Yuma County Registers of Actions

When the docket calendar is too thin, ask for the register of actions. It is the chronological case-event record and may list complaint filing, advisement, arraignment, motions, a pretrial conference, plea, trial, sentencing, and later activity. Public electronic access may show dates without the underlying PDFs. Older or non-electronic Yuma County files can also require retrieval, so give the clerk a case number, party name, requested date range, and exact document type.

The official webform routes Yuma requests to YumaRecordsRequest@judicial.state.co.us. Call or email first to confirm public access, delivery, and copy cost. Colorado lists a $20 certified-copy fee under CRS 13-32-104(1)(f). Certification is useful when the reader needs the clerk to attest that the copy matches the official file. An ordinary reading copy and a certified copy are not the same product.

Note: A blank online result can reflect a wrong court, filing lag, name mismatch, older file, sealed case, or restricted matter.

Inside a Yuma County Case File

A complete Yuma County criminal case file can identify the court, filing date, parties, charge language, statute, class, hearing events, outcome, sentence, and financial balance. The public docket result is narrower. It may show only schedule data such as the date, duration, party, case number, hearing type, location, appearance type, and courtroom. Ask for the charging document to see what the prosecutor filed, the register of actions to trace the case, and the judgment or sentencing entry to confirm the final result.

Yuma County Court File Differences

A court file, police report, and CBI history answer different questions. The arresting agency writes the incident narrative and arrest report. Yuma County Combined Court records what the prosecutor filed and what the judge did. CBI links fingerprint-based arrest cycles with reported dispositions in the statewide Colorado Crime Information Center. A booking charge may change before filing, and a CBI result can lag behind the final court outcome.

The statewide court index can help locate a court trail. It cannot produce a Yuma County clerk's pleadings merely because both records relate to one event.

The source makes the custodian split clear: ask each office for the record it created and maintains.

How a Yuma County Case Moves

The 13th Judicial District Attorney makes the state charging choice. After charges are filed, the clerk opens the Yuma County case and records the next judicial events. Arraignment is the stage at which the charge is addressed and a plea may be entered. Pretrial work can include motions, discovery-related events, conferences, and negotiations. The matter then resolves by plea, dismissal, or trial. A conviction moves to disposition and sentencing. The timing varies by case, and no fixed local schedule is published.

Case flow: Charges Filed › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing

Post-disposition entries can include payment, probation, review, sealing, or other court action. The official Yuma Combined Court page publishes local court information and links.

That later agency record does not replace the Yuma County judgment that established the case outcome.

Reading Yuma County Case Numbers

Colorado case numbers use a filing year, a case class, and a sequence. CR marks a criminal class in the search inventory, while M and T are among the other classes the portal can offer. The code helps distinguish one Yuma County filing from another, but it does not state the final outcome. Always open the related events and obtain the disposition when the result matters.

Docket

The dated court record of hearings, filings, and rulings.

Arraignment

A court stage where charges are addressed and a plea may be entered.

Disposition

The result of a charge, such as dismissal, acquittal, plea, or conviction.

Register of actions

The chronological list of events in the official case file.

Sentence

The consequence ordered by the court after a conviction.

Search engines often mix Yuma County, Colorado with Yuma County, Arizona. A Colorado case should use Colorado courts, the 13th Judicial District, and local Wray contacts. Arizona case numbers, statutes, and 928 telephone numbers do not belong in this search.

Yuma County Case Access Rules

Colorado's Judicial Branch public-access policy controls court files, while the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act governs many agency records. Public access does not expose every field. Sealed entries, protected juvenile material, victim information, Social Security numbers, financial-account data, and protected addresses can be withheld or redacted. A clerk may provide a public copy that omits data visible to authorized court users.

Adult record sealing follows CRS 24-72-701 through 24-72-709. A qualifying Yuma County case may follow a route for a noncharge arrest, dismissal, acquittal, eligible conviction, or automatic sealing category. The outcome, offense, later history, and statutory exclusions affect eligibility. A sealing order restricts ordinary public access, but it does not mean each government copy was destroyed. The official Colorado Revised Statutes should control any current legal question.

The official Yuma docket search is a calendar system, not a complete document archive.

The visual reinforces a core access rule: choose the government system that owns the exact record type being sought.

The Colorado State Public Defender office locator is a separate official resource for defense-office contacts.

Defense-office records and applications do not replace the public Yuma County court docket.

Yuma County Criminal Clerk Desk

The Yuma County Combined Court clerk is at 310 Ash Street, Suite L, Wray, CO 80758. The main line is 970-592-6120, and the fax is 970-332-4119. Public hours are Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.; Friday hours are 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The midday closure matters for counter inspection. Court appearances are in person unless a court order says otherwise.

Give the clerk a case number whenever possible. Ask for the register of actions, charging document, disposition, judgment, or certified copy by name. The broader Yuma County arrest lookup is the better route for booking and arresting-agency records that predate the court filing.

Federal cases use PACER and the U.S. District Court for Colorado, not the Yuma County clerk.

PACER provides the federal docket layer when the case was filed in United States District Court. The District of Colorado site identifies the official federal court.

The District of Colorado page identifies the federal court, while Suite L remains the source for Yuma County state cases.