Booklets, Brochures and other Media. If you would like hard copies of some of our publications, we have most of them available upon request. They are produced by the Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) and are available, in limited quantities, free of charge to the general public for non-commercial use.

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2008 Child Support Committee Annual Report provides an update on this legislative committee's year.

2008 Domestic Relations Committee Annual Report provides an update on this legislative committee's year.

2008 Arizona Lengthy Trial Fund Annual Report is submitted annually to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, pursuant to A.R.S. § 21-222(F), and reports on the amount of monies collected and disbursed from the Arizona Lengthy Trial Fund and the number of jurors who received monies from the fund.

2009 Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund Report provides an update on this fund year.

Capital Sentencing Guide was created by the staff attorneys of the Arizona Death Penalty Judicial Assistance Program to assist Arizona’s superior court judges in resolving capital sentencing matters. The Guide consists of two major parts: the aggravation and mitigation tables, and the case summaries. The aggravation and mitigation tables list every Arizona Supreme Court opinion that discusses that particular aggravating or mitigating circumstance. The case summaries enable the reader to see, at a glance, the entire aggravating and mitigating circumstances in that specific case.

2005-2010 Good to Great:  A Strategic Agenda for Arizona Courts.  Archived Strategic Agendas for the Arizona Judicial Branch

2008 Report of the Arizona Judicial Branch provides an update on the year's progress and appears online in accordance with A.R.S. 41-4153
Archive Reports of the Arizona Judicial Branch

A Review of the Family Court Department of the Maricopa County Superior Court  In February of 2004,  the Arizona Supreme Court commissioned this study to assess the overall performance of the Family Court Department and its many ancillary staff services.  In response the Family Court Department of the Superior Court in Maricopa offers the Final Plan of Enhancement.

Archived Annual State of the Judiciary Addresses

Arizona Courts: Data Reports present caseload, revenue and expenditures, and statewide detailed information on individual courts in the limited and general jurisdictions. It is intended to supplement the Report of the Arizona Judicial Department.

Colorblind Justice is a conference report addressing minority youth over-representation in Arizona's juvenile justice system.

Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Report - Under the Influence Mandatory Sentencing Chart. Effective 11/24/2009.  3rd Special Session, 49th Legislature.
Juvenile Under the Influence Report - Juvenile Under the Influence Mandatory Sentencing Chart. Effective 11/24/2009. 3rd Special Session, 49th Legislature

Final Report of the Committee on Compulsory Arbitration in the Superior Court. In November 2005, Chief Justice McGregor established an Ad Hoc Committee on compulsory Arbitration in the Superior Court in Arizona. The Committee concluded their work in August 2006 after presenting the final report of the Committee to the Arizona Judicial Council and filing a rule petition to revise and expand the rules for compulsory arbitration in the Superior Court.

Court Filing Fees.  The filing fee schedules for the state are established by statute. The monies collected from the state fees are allocated to various state and local funds as prescribed by statute. Please check with the court for additional local fees.

Court Security:  Preparing for the Unthinkable – A report presented to the Judicial Council by the Committee on Court Security Emergency Preparedness in 2003.

Criminal Code Sentencing Provisions.  These booklets describe misdemeanors, fines, financial assessments, length of probation ranges, juvenile offenders, drug offense sentencing ranges, personal possession and use of drugs, general crimes sentencing ranges, dangerous crimes against children sentencing ranges, first and second degree murder and community supervision ranges.

The Guide for Self-Represented ("Pro Se" or "Pro Per") Appellants and Appellees describes how to appeal civil cases from the Superior Court to the Appellate Courts (Court of Appeals, Arizona Supreme Court).

Jurors: The Power of 12 presented on this web page takes the form of 55 specific recommendations touching upon the entire process in which jurors are involved, beginning with the subject of source lists from which potential jurors' names are taken and ending with the need for post-verdict debriefings of jurors following unusually stressful trials.

Jurors: The Power of 12, Part 2, about two years after submission of its original report on jury reform, Jurors: The Power of 12, the Committee on More Effective Use of Juries was reconvened to consider a dozen additional issues.

Legal Resource Guide by the State Bar of Arizona (PDF).  This document addresses such matters as how to hire a lawyer, attorney professional responsibility, legal assistance to the community and legal topics important to all individuals.  It is a publication of the State Bar of Arizona and Phoenix Magazine

Legislative Update provides summaries of legislation of interest to the court community that were passed in the Arizona Legislature.

Preliminary Report Review of Pending DUI Cases in Maricopa County Justice Courts.