Crawford County Municipal Court, Ohio Adjournment & Extension Requirements

CRITICAL

A continuance must be requested by written motion and will be granted only for good cause.

Every request for a continuance shall be by written motion and will only be granted upon showing of good cause.

CRITICAL

A continuance to a specific date is granted only upon a showing, satisfactory to the Court, that it is necessary.

All cases will be heard on the day assigned for pretrial and trial, and continuances to a day certain will only be granted upon the demonstration to the satisfaction of the Court of the necessity for the continuance.

CRITICAL

A pretrial conference continuance may be granted for good cause and requires approval from the Judge or Magistrate before whom it is scheduled.

Continuances of pretrial conferences may be granted upon the showing of good cause, and no continuance shall be granted without approval of the Judge or Magistrate before whom the pretrial is scheduled.

CRITICAL

A continuance request made less than seven days before trial will not be considered unless reasonable diligence could not have revealed the circumstances at least seven days before trial.

No request for continuance will be considered if made less than seven [7] days before trial except for circumstances which by reasonable diligence could not be determined seven [7] or more days prior to trial.

CRITICAL

A jury demand automatically continues the case.

Such demand automatically continues the case and the moving party must post bond in accordance with R.C. 1928.08.

CRITICAL

A continuance motion must state the date from which the continuance is requested and the reasons for it.

The motion shall set forth the date from which a continuance is requested and reasons for the continuance.

WARNING

An application to continue a pretrial conference must be addressed to the judge.

Any application for continuance of the conference shall be addressed to the Judge.

WARNING

For trial conflicts, Federal and Common Pleas Court trials take priority, other Municipal or County Court cases are prioritized by the earliest setting, criminal trials take priority over civil trials, and other continuance requests are within the trial court’s discretion.

When a continuance is requested for the reason that counsel is scheduled to appear in another case assigned for trial on the same date in the same or another trial court of this state, cases set in Federal Court and Common Pleas Courts trial shall have priority and shall be tried on the date assigned. With regard to other cases set in Municipal or County Court, those cases set first in time shall have priority. Criminal cases assigned for trial have priority over civil cases. The granting of any other request for continuance of a scheduled trial is a matter within the discretion of the trial court.