Local Rule LCrR 17.3: APPLICATIONS FOR WRITS IN CRIMINAL CASES

LCrR 17.3 APPLICATIONS FOR WRITS IN CRIMINAL CASES Applications for Issuance of Writs of Habeas Corpus to be Executed by the United States Marshals Service. To ensure the prisoner's presence in the district at the requested time, applications for writs of habeas corpus (ad prosequendum and/or ad testificandum) that are to be executed by the United States Marshal must be filed with the Court within the time frames provided below:

(1) If the prisoner is out-of-district, at least twenty-one (21) days before the hearing date, or the first day of the term of Court, whichever is earlier, for which the prisoner is needed;

(2) If the prisoner is within the district, at least fourteen (14) days before the hearing date, or the first day of the term of Court, whichever is earlier, for which the prisoner is needed.

Any writ application not made within the time period prescribed herein may be denied as untimely. Upon a finding of good cause, however, a judicial officer may honor an untimely writ application.