LCDLA.org » Federal Court http://lcdla.org Lubbock Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:46:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Federal Court Conflicts http://lcdla.org/2006/11/30/federal-court-conflicts/ http://lcdla.org/2006/11/30/federal-court-conflicts/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:33:01 +0000 Metzae
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http://lcdla.org/wordpress/?p=62 Judge Darnell has asked that I inform the defense bar of the following Lubbock County District Court policy regarding conflicts in federal court.

If a defense attorney has a jury trial scheduled in district court of Lubbock County and the attorney has a schedule conflict with a federal court plea or non-jury setting that cannot be re-scheduled, the Lubbock County district judges will postpone the start of trial or recess briefly for the attorney to attend to the federal matter. But the Lubbock County district judges, as a general rule, are opposed to re-setting a Lubbock jury trial setting for a conflicting federal plea or non-jury matter. However, Lubbock County district judges will defer to federal jury trials.

It is my understanding that exceptions to this policy will be granted on a case-by-case basis in consideration of the duration of the federal matter.

Chuck Lanehart, LCDLA Court Liaison

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