Local Rule LCrR 57.10: MANNER OF ASSIGNMENT
D.D.C. — Criminal rule
LCrR 57.10 MANNER OF ASSIGNMENT
(a) RANDOM ASSIGNMENT.
Except as otherwise provided by these Rules, civil, criminal and miscellaneous cases shall be assigned to judges of this Court selected at random in the following manner:
(1) The Clerk shall create a separate assignment deck in the automated system for each subclassification of civil and criminal cases established by the Court pursuant to LCrR 57.9 of these Rules and a separate deck for miscellaneous cases. The decks will be created by the Liaison to the Calendar and Case Management Committee or the Liaison's backup and access to this function shall be restricted to these individuals to protect the integrity and confidentiality of the random assignment of cases. The Calendar and Case Management Committee will, from time to time, determine and indicate by order the frequency with which each judge's name shall appear in each designated deck to effectuate an even distribution of cases among the active judges.
(2) At the time a civil complaint is filed or an indictment or information is returned in a criminal case, the case shall be assigned to the judge whose name appears on the screen when the appropriate deck is selected. The Clerk shall also stamp on the indictment, information, complaint or other initial pleading of each case, and on the file jacket, the number of the case and the name of the judge to whom it is assigned. The numbering and assignment of each case shall be completed before processing of the next case is begun. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a civil case, requiring an emergency hearing, which is filed after normal business hours, shall not be assigned to a judge until the next business day.
(b) ASSIGNMENT TO VISITING AND SENIOR JUDGES.
Cases may be assigned to visiting and senior judges in accordance with procedures adopted from time to time by the Calendar and Case Management Committee.
(c) PROCEEDINGS AFTER ASSIGNMENT.
All proceedings in a case after its assignment shall be conducted by the judge to whom the case is assigned, except as otherwise provided in these Rules. A judge who declares a mistrial shall retain the case for subsequent proceedings including, where appropriate, retrial.
(d) WIRETAP ORDER APPLICATIONS.
Applications by the United States Attorney for orders authorizing interception of wire or oral communications shall be assigned in rotation by seniority among the active judges, excluding the Chief Judge.
COMMENT TO LCrR 57.10: To ensure an even distribution of cases filed on the miscellaneous docket these cases will now be randomly assigned to a judge of this Court at the time of filing. The assigned judge will maintain jurisdiction of the miscellaneous case for all purposes. The assignment of miscellaneous cases does not affect the duties of the Motions Judge as specified in LCvR 40.8 (a)(b)(c).