SCHUYLKILL COUNTY Amended Criminal Rules of Procedure; MD-1099-2013 [43 Pa.B. 6673]
[Saturday, November 9, 2013]Order of Court And Now, this 21st day of October, 2013, at 8:30 a.m., Schuylkill County Criminal Rule of Procedure, Rule 570.1 is amended for use in the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Twenty-First Judicial District, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, effective thirty (30) days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
The Clerk of Courts of Schuylkill County is Ordered and Directed to do the following:
1) File seven (7) certified copies of this Order and Rule with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.
2) File two (2) certified copies of this Order and Rule with the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin together with a diskette reflecting the text in the hard copy version.
3) File one (1) certified copy of this Order and Rule with the Pennsylvania Criminal Procedural Rules Committee.
4) Forward one (1) copy to the Law Library of Schuylkill County for publication in the Schuylkill Legal Record.
5) Keep continuously available for public inspection copies of this Order and Rule.
It is further Ordered that said rule as it existed prior to the amendment is hereby repealed and annulled on the effective date of said rule as amended, but no right acquired thereunder shall be disturbed.
WILLIAM E. BALDWIN,
President JudgeSchuylkill County Court of Common Pleas Rule 570.1. Certification of Trial List/Pre-Trial Conference.
On or before the date established by the Court Calendar, the District Attorney shall submit the Trial List consisting of those cases to be attached for trial during the next Criminal Term. The Court will promptly enter an order for each case on the list, attaching the parties and counsel for trial and giving notice of the important dates for the Criminal Term for which the case is attached. A Defendant may, by motion filed with the Clerk of Courts, at any time request that a case be added to the next available Trial List. (Note: Cases in which the Commonwealth has charged murder as defined in 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 2502 shall not be included on the Trial List, but shall, instead, proceed pursuant to Sch.R.Crim.P. 560(f).)
Motions for continuances shall be heard and pretrial conferences shall be conducted on the dates and times established by the Court Calendar. The pretrial conference with a member of the Court shall be conducted for all cases that were attached for trial and not removed by the granting of a continuance, the filing of a timely guilty plea petition or motion for an A.R.D., or by entry of an order of Court removing the case. For those cases remaining on the Trial List, the conference shall be attended by the attorneys who will try the case and by the defendants.
It shall be the duty of each party, prior to the pretrial conference, to verify the availability of all necessary witnesses for trial and to notify the Court at the conference of all scheduling problems, contemplated motions and other matters that may affect the scheduling of the trial. The Court may decline to consider scheduling problems and requests which are not brought to the Court's attention at the pretrial conference.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 13-2107. Filed for public inspection November 8, 2013, 9:00 a.m.]
