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D. Guam CRLR 5

Initial Appearance

activein force · 2020-06-24 – presentact-effective-date

(a) It shall be the duty of all federal agencies and others who arrest any person as a federal

prisoner in this district to give prompt notice without unnecessary delay to the Clerk’s

Office and the U.S. Pretrial Services Office for this district.

(b) When an arrested person is not represented by counsel and requests to be represented by a

court-appointed attorney as an indigent, the federal arresting agency shall so inform the

Office of the Federal Public Defender of Guam without unnecessary delay or, in the event

of a conflict of interest, the Clerk’s Office, who will thereafter provide the name of the

next available counsel on the court’s Criminal Justice Act (“CJA”) Panel.

(c) Except where otherwise ordered by a district judge, all initial appearances in criminal

proceedings shall be conducted by the magistrate judge.

Provenance

Source
www.gud.uscourts.gov
Retrieved
2026-09-18
Edition
fed-district-2026-09-19
Content hash
2180feef659a07640b44eb0bb3eb0a132f2bf89f22219d1e204c96239f2b9f98
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