Judge JoAnne Murphy

Applies to

Filed document

Attorneys and self-represented parties must not include confidential information in filed documents except on a Confidential Information Form.

Applies to

Transcript request

Legal Aid Services must provide the President Judge a certification letter establishing financial eligibility and either an appeal or the transcript’s necessity to advance current litigation.

Applies to

Transcript request

Self-represented litigants claiming economic hardship must attach a fully completed In Forma Pauperis Petition to their transcript request.

Deadline

5 business days

The custodian or proponent must file this document and all exhibits in the appropriate records office within five business days after the proceeding ends.

Exhibit authenticity is deemed established unless a written objection is filed at least seven days before trial; an objection to an exhibit received after the pretrial conference may be made by motion.

Unless the judge orders otherwise, jury-instruction requests must be filed electronically in MS Word and sent to the stated chambers email ten days before trial; amendments or supplements may be submitted at the close of evidence.

Bench warrants and arrest warrants must be processed through the centralized warrant control operated by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.

Criminal warrants must be issued to the originating Police Department, with a copy sent to the Sheriff’s Office.

A warrant issued in a Summary Case must be issued to the Sheriff’s Office.

If a Constable contacts or appears at a Magisterial District Court with a defendant in custody without a warrant in hand and without Sheriff’s Office authorization to serve warrants, the Sheriff’s Office must be contacted immediately.

6. In the event that a defendant has been arrested on more than one warrant issued by different Magisterial District Judges, the Constable may take the defendant before any Magisterial District Judge who issued a warrant. That Magisterial District Judge is authorized to conduct a hearing on all of the warrants on which the defendant was arrested.

The Constable must first contact the court of the judge with the most warrants; if that judge cannot process them within one hour, the Constable must contact the judge with the next most warrants.