N.M. 2nd Jud. Dist. Amended LR2-400-20160202 L

Assignment calendar for new calendar cases; assignments and reassignments

to new calendar judges.

(1) Scheduling by event categories; trailing docket; functional overlap among

new calendar judges. The presiding judge of the criminal division shall establish an assignment

calendar for all new calendar judges. The assignment calendar shall identify the weeks or other

time periods when each new calendar judge will schedule events in the following categories:

trials; motions and sentencing; arraignments, pleas and miscellaneous matters. Each new

calendar judge may schedule an event in the week or other time period set aside for that event

category, on a trailing docket. The assignment calendar shall include functional overlap so that

more than one judge is always scheduled to hear matters in each event category on any given day.

In the scheduled weeks or other time periods, the new calendar judges shall schedule events

within the time requirements of Paragraph G of this rule. The presiding judge of the criminal

division may organize the new calendar judges into teams of three (3) and four (4) judges or

other appropriate groups to most efficiently accomplish case disposition within the requirements

of this rule.

(2) Reassignments permitted. If on or before the date of a scheduled event the

assigned new calendar judge is or will be unable to preside over the scheduled event for any

reason, including a trailing docket, vacation, or illness, the case may be reassigned by order of the

presiding judge of the criminal division to another judge on the assignment calendar who is

scheduled that day to hear that category of scheduled event and who is not subject to a previously

exercised peremptory excusal, except that a judge who presided at trial shall conduct the

sentencing. The court may adopt a form of order to expedite such reassignments.

(3) Reassignment for scheduled event; case returns to original judge. If

another judge scheduled on the assignment calendar for the type of scheduled event is not

available to immediately preside over the scheduled event, the assigned judge may designate any

other new calendar judge, or a judge pro tempore previously approved by order of the Chief

Justice and designated by the chief judge for this purpose, to preside over the scheduled hearing,

trial, or other scheduled event. Upon conclusion of the hearing, trial, or other scheduled event,

the case shall again be assigned to the original new calendar judge without requirement of further

order, except when the reassignment was for trial in which case the judge who presided over the

trial shall also preside over sentencing.