Provisions in Criminal Cases

• Rule 2:1.  Responsibility for Criminal Orders.
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  • In all criminal cases the prosecuting attorney shall be primarily responsible for drafting and presenting for entry the orders in such cases, a copy of which upon entry the clerk shall forthwith send counsel of record for the defendant.
    

• Rule 2:2.  Misdemeanor Appeals.
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  • In all misdemeanor cases including criminal contempts in which an appeal has been noted from the final judgment of any district court, trial of such appeal shall be set on that Misdemeanor Appeal Day of the Circuit Court to which the appeal lies next succeeding the expiration to twenty days after the date of conviction. District Courts shall promptly transmit the papers of the case to the clerk of the Circuit Court after the expiration of ten days from the date of conviction. Cases set for trial on a Misdemeanor Appeal Day which for any reason are not tried on that day shall be continued by order to a day certain.

  • If a Term Day of Grand Jury Day intervenes between the transmittal of the papers by the District Court to the Circuit Court and the Misdemeanor Appeal Day on which the case is set for trial, then all motions, pleas or other matters preliminary to trial shall be presented on such day; and if such day does not intervene then the same shall be presented at any time available to the Court prior to such trial.