Marysville Municipal Court, Ohio Adjournment & Extension Requirements

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The Court alone may grant continuances, none is granted until an appropriate journal entry is filed, and a continuance request delayed until the proceeding date will not be granted unless the requesting party appears personally.

F. The Coun retains the exclusive authority to grant continuances. No continuance is granted until an appropriate journal entry is filed. Requests for continuances unavoidably delayed until the day of the proceeding sought to be continued, shall not be granted absent the personal appearance of the requesting party.

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(3) Failure to provide a party requesting a continuance with available dates within one business day of receiving a request therefor shall constirute a waiver of any conflict the norunoving party may have on the rescheduled date. Nonmoving parties who do not consent to the continuance requested must nevcnheless provide available dates.

(3) Failure to provide a party requesting a continuance with available dates within one business day of receiving a request therefor shall constirute a waiver of any conflict the norunoving party may have on the rescheduled date. Nonmoving parties who do not consent to the continuance requested must nevcnheless provide available dates.

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A continuance or rescheduling request is granted only on a timely written motion that includes all other parties’ approval by signature or telephone consent, or states that they were consulted and identifies any party that does not consent.

A. Requests to continue or reschedule cases shall be granted only upon a timely filed writ- ten motion. The motion must include either (I) an endorsement by personal signature or telephone consent of approval of all other parties, or counsel if represented. or (2) a statcmcnt that all other parties have been consulted and which, if any, party does not consent, to the continuance requested.

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A continuance will not be granted for failure to obtain service when the praecipe is requested three or fewer days before trial.

No continuance shall be granted for failure to obtain service if the precipe is requested three or Jess days prior to trial.

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A late motion to continue a bench trial must be accompanied by the defendant’s signed waiver of the right to a jury trial or it will be denied.

E. Where a defendant has a right to a lrial by jury trial, a motion to continue a bench trial filed after the expiration of the time within which to file jury demand shall be denied unless accompanied by a waiver of the righl to a trial by jury signed by the defendant.

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No continuance may be granted, even upon a waiver of time, if the defendant is not incarcerated pending trial for more than 24 hours after entering a plea.

If defendant is not incarcerated pending trial for more than rwcnr:y-four hours after the plea is entered. no continuance shall be gran!Cd even upon a waiver of time.

WARNING

A trial or pretrial conference may not be delayed or continued to explore ADR unless counsel for each party and each unrepresented party provide written assurance that the method is reasonably likely to resolve the dispute.

Trials and pretrial conferences will not be delayed or continued for purposes of exploring Alternative Dispute Resolution methods except upon written assurance by counsel for each party, and each party not represented by counsel, that such method is reasonably likely to result in resolution of the dispute.

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A continuance or rescheduling motion must suggest at least two alternate dates verified with the parties and Clerk; hearing and bench-trial dates must be within ten days of the original date, and jury-trial dates within twenty-one days.

B. The motion must suggest at least two E. If counsel has such a number of cases assigned for hearing or trial as to cause undue delay in the disposition of cases in this Coun, the Coun may require the trial attorney to provide a substirute trial anomcy. If the trial attorney was appointed by the Coun, the Coun may appoint a substirute trial attorney. (I) For hearings and bench trials, the resch- eduled dates suggested shall be no more than ten daVJl before or after the original date. For jury trials the rescheduled dates shall be no more than twenty-one days before or after the original date.