Local Rule 12.1: Pleadings and Pretrial Motions
S.D. Ohio — Criminal rule
12.1 Pleadings and Pretrial Motions
(a) The charging documents, including the complaint, information, indictment, and superseding indictment, shall be filed either in the traditional manner in paper or as a scanned document that contains an image of any legally required signature. All subsequent documents shall be filed electronically except as provided in these Rules or as ordered by the Court.
(b) Subject to restrictions that the Court may impose, a person may review all filings at the Clerk's office that have not been sealed.
(c) Consequences of Electronic Filing. Electronic transmission of a document to the ECF system, together with transmission of a Notice of Electronic Filing from the Court, constitutes filing of the document for all purposes under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Local Rules of this Court and constitutes entry of the document on the docket kept by the Clerk under Fed. R. Crim. P. 49 and 55. When a document is filed electronically, the official record is the electronic recording of the document as stored by the Court, and the filing party is bound by the document as filed unless relief is granted under subsection (f) of S.D. Ohio Civ. R. 5.1.
(d) All orders, decrees, judgments and proceedings of the Court filed in accordance with these Rules using the ECF system will constitute entry on the docket kept by the Clerk under Fed. R. Crim. P. 49 and 55.
(e) Related Cases. It is the personal responsibility of the United States Attorney or Assistant United States Attorney to identify related cases on the "Defendant Information Relative to a Criminal Action" form (Form AO 257) or other form provided by the Clerk's Office. For purposes of this Rule, cases may be deemed related by the Court if they appear to arise from the same or a substantially identical transactions, happenings, or events, including any alleged conspiracy. This Rule is intended to provide for the orderly division of the business of the Court and does not grant any right to any litigant.