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D.D.C. LCrR 57.13

Other Transfers and Reassignments

activein force · 2026-09-01 – presentact-effective-date

(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.

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www.dcd.uscourts.gov
Retrieved
2026-09-18
Edition
fed-district-2026-09-18
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