FILED
Apr 12 2007
United States District Court
Northern District of Ohio
General Order
GENERAL ORDER NO. 2007-07
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
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CRIMINAL CASE ASSIGNMENT – ) ORDER NO. 2007-07
CAPITAL CASES )
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At the regular meeting of judges held on April 2, 2007, the Court agreed to modify
the criminal case assignment system in both the Eastern and Western Divisions to
preclude any judge from receiving more than one criminal case with a capital charge until
every other judge in the division on the criminal draw had received one such case. It was
also agreed that in any instance in which a capital charge is brought after the case was
originally assigned to a judge, the case assignment decks will be adjusted accordingly
and if that judge had already been assigned a capital case from the current criminal capital
case deck, the judge may return the case to the Clerk’s Office for reassignment or, in
those instances where substantial work had already been done, keep the case and accept
a waiver from the next criminal capital case assignment deck.
Accordingly, the Clerk’s Office is hereby ordered to make the necessary
modifications to the automated case assignment system and the technical change to
Local Criminal Rule 57.12, Preparation of Assignment Decks.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
FOR THE COURT
James G. Carr
Chief Judge
United States District Court
