Court Rules

Letcher Circuit Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

1 rule from official source documents

Procedures for filing sealed or redacted documents, including required motions and formats.

Criminal cases

Program records and statements about the contract are confidential and protected from disclosure, subject to specified access and release exceptions.

D. All Program records and all statements made by a defendant to a pretrial officer regarding the contract shall be privileged; shall not be admissible or discoverable for any purpose; shall be exempt from subpoena; and, shall be deemed confidential. However, Program staff, the trial judge, and the chief district judge may access the information for purposes of Program review, monitoring, and supervision. The information shall not be released to any other person or entity without prior written consent of the trial judge or the defendant. Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prohibit release of information to the victim regarding a defendant's patticipation in the Program.

Common questions about Letcher Circuit Court sealing & redaction procedures

How does Letcher Circuit Court handle sealed or redacted filings?

Program records and statements about the contract are confidential and protected from disclosure, subject to specified access and release exceptions.

View ruleOfficial source Source: page 3, section II. PARTICIPATION