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title: Rules of the District Court

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# Rules of the District Court
***These Rules shall be cited as the Mayfl. S. Ct. #.#.#. For example, Mayfl. S. Ct. 1.1.1 would properly cite the first clause of the first paragraph of Rule 1.***

RULE 1 - Case Formatting
Case numbers shall be formatted as follows where “XXXXX” indicate a randomly generated number and “YY” indicates the last two numbers of the current year:
Criminal: CR-XXXXX-YY
Civil: CV-XXXXX-YY
Expungement: EX-XXXXX-YY
Warrant Appeal: WA-XXXXX-YY
Courts-Martial: CM-XXXXX-YY
RULE 2 - Criminal submissions
Criminal Submissions (those from the Department of Justice and Judge Advocate General’s Corps) shall require an attached Criminal Complaint, any filing without a complaint may be declined for filing by the Clerk of the District Court, the Chief Judge or any other person responsible for the Administration of the E-Filing Terminal.
RULE 3 - Pretrial Procedure
A pretrial period in criminal and civil matters (expungement excluded) shall be ordered immediately following the assignment of a case to the docket of a judge, and shall last exactly ten days. The person responsible for the assignment of the case shall set the pretrial period ending exactly ten days or two hundred and forty hours after it has been assigned to a judge.
The pretrial period may end before the ordered ten days if both parties to a matter agree to forgo the remainder of the ordered pretrial period.
An individual may file a pretrial motion up until forty-eight (48) hours before the end of the pretrial period.
A party may only respond once to a pretrial motion if they wish to respond at all. That response must be filed within forty-eight (48) hours of the motion being made.
A judge may not permit the filing of any motion or response that has is made outside of the pretrial period.
At the end of the pretrial period, the judge shall enter an order to all pretrial motions that have not already been decided. The judge is otherwise able to enter an order immediately after a motion is made and both parties respond or decline to respond.
The judge, immediately following the pretrial period, shall entertain all reasonable efforts to ensure that the case moves to trial.