(a) TRANSFERS BY CONSENT.
A judge, upon written advice to the Calendar and Case Management Committee, may
transfer directly all or part of any case on the judge's docket to any consenting judge.
(b) DEATH, RETIREMENT, APPOINTMENT OF NEW JUDGES, ETC.
When reassignments are necessitated by the death, retirement, resignation or incapacity
of any judge or by the appointment of a new judge, or by any other circumstances, the
Calendar and Case Management Committee shall determine and indicate by order the
method by which such reassignments shall be made.
Reassignment of any criminal case, and matters arising therefrom, previously assigned to
a judge who no longer sits on the district court shall be made by random assignment.
(c) REASSIGNMENT OF CRIMINAL CASES.
If the Calendar and Case Management Committee, giving due consideration to LCrR 45.1
of these Rules, determines in its discretion that the interest of justice require the transfer
of any criminal case from one judge to another, it may reassign the case.
(d) CALENDAR AND CASE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CALENDAR.
Any criminal case in which the only defendant is a fugitive or is mentally incompetent to
stand trial shall be assigned to the Calendar and Case Management Committee by the
judge upon whose calendar it appears after the case has been pending for 90 days or
more. In cases involving two or more defendants, in the event that one or more are
fugitives or are mentally incompetent to stand trial, the case may go to trial as to those
defendants who are not fugitives and are not mentally incompetent to stand trial. Upon
the entry of a final judgment as to such defendants, the case shall be assigned to the
Calendar and Case Management Committee for further action as to those defendants who
are fugitives or mentally incompetent to stand trial. Additionally, the case of any
criminal defendant who becomes a fugitive subsequent to a guilty plea but prior to
sentencing shall be assigned to the Calendar and Case Management Committee by the
judge upon whose calendar the case had appeared after such a fugitive has been an
absconder for 90 days or more. The Calendar and Case Management Committee may
assign one or more judges for the purpose of making a periodic call of such cases. The
judge or judges so assigned shall from time to time consult with the United States
Attorney to ascertain whether dismissals of particular criminal actions or civil
commitment of defendants incompetent to stand trial shall be deemed advisable. If the
reasons which made a case untriable cease to exist, the case shall be reassigned for trial to
the transferring judge.
(e) TRANSFERS NOT PROVIDED FOR BY OTHER RULES.
If a case is transferred to the Calendar and Case Management Committee for any reason
not otherwise provided for in this title, and the Calendar and Case Management
Committee approves the transfer, it shall cause the case to be reassigned by random lot or
otherwise as these Rules provided.
