2303 Establishment of Readiness, Review and Resolution Program for the trials of the oldest non-fatal shooting cases, gunpoint robbery cases, and serious family violence cases; trial division—criminal; no. 03 of 2012
Title 249—PHILADELPHIA RULES PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Establishment of Readiness, Review and Resolution Program for the Trials of the Oldest Non-Fatal Shooting Cases, Gunpoint Robbery Cases, and Serious Family Violence Cases; Trial Division—Criminal; No. 03 of 2012 [42 Pa.B. 7263]
[Saturday, December 1, 2012]Order And Now, this 5th day of November, 2012, in order to expedite the trial of the oldest non-fatal shooting cases, gunpoint robbery cases, and serious family violence cases without disrupting the current judicial assignments and at the same time to maximize available judicial resources by deploying judges who may be awaiting case assignments within their designated Program, the following Readiness, Review and Resolution Program (RRR) is being instituted:
1) on November 16, 2012, and from time to time thereafter, the Honorable Jeffrey P. Minehart, shall status the cases meeting the criteria and shall assign them for trial at the rate of three cases per week, beginning with the week of January 7, 2013;
2) the Commonwealth and counsel for the defendant for each of the three cases assigned on a weekly basis shall be trial-ready on the assigned trial date;
3) all cases sent out as part of this Program to a judge for trial shall be marked ''must be tried;''
4) any of the cases in this Program which are not tried during the assigned week will be tried on the originally scheduled trial date; and
5) this Program will end on June 28, 2013 unless extended by the Court.
This Order shall be filed with the Prothonotary and the Clerk of Courts in a docket maintained for Orders issued by the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and, as required by Pa.R.Crim.P. No. 105(E), two certified copies of this Order and a copy on a computer diskette, shall be distributed to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. This Order will become effective thirty days after publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. As required by Pa.R.Crim.P. No. 105 (F) one certified copy of this Order shall be filed with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts and will also be published on the Unified Judicial System's web site at http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/localrules/ruleselection.aspx and posted on the First Judicial District's website at http://www.courts.phila.gov. Copies shall be published in The Legal Intelligencer and will be submitted to American Lawyer Media, Jenkins Memorial Law Library, and the Law Library for the First Judicial District.
By the Court
HONORABLE JOHN W. HERRON,
Administrative Judge, Trial Division[Pa.B. Doc. No. 12-2303. Filed for public inspection November 30, 2012, 9:00 a.m.]
