Bucks Cnty. C.P. Rule 304 (f)

Rule 304*(f). Pretrial Applications for Relief to be Heard by Judge Assigned

to Case.

With the exception of applications to fix or modify bail, for bench warrants or for

arraignments, all miscellaneous pretrial applications which do not require action by

a Court en banc, shall be submitted to and decided by the judge to whom the case

has been assigned or, if none, the motion judge, pursuant to Bucks County Civil

Rule 266, provided, however, that Bucks County Rule 4003(B)(1) shall not apply

to petitions and rules or other similar applications in criminal cases. Factual

questions properly at issue in such proceedings shall be resolved by evidence at a

hearing before the judge to whom the case has been assigned, or the motion judge,

as the case may be. If the application shall properly involve matters of fact not of

record, it shall be in the form of a petition with a form or order awarding a rule to

show cause attached thereto. The answer shall have affixed thereto a form of order

fixing a hearing date to be scheduled by the judge to whom the case has been

assigned. Upon the filing of the application or upon the return day if a rule to show

cause has been awarded, the clerk shall deliver the whole file to the judge to whom

the case has been assigned, and the matter shall proceed as he/she may thereupon

require for disposition.