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Order Regarding Jury Trials, SCMF-20-0000152

Order postponing First Circuit jury trials to dates after December 11, 2020 (Sept. 28, 2020)

Supreme Court of Hawaii, Chief Justice Recktenwald · Hawaii (Court)

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Jurisdiction
Hawaii
Level
Court
Authority
HRS 601-1.5, 601-2
Issued
2020-09-28 Sept. 28, 2020
Effective
2020-09-28
End
2020-12-11 (First Circuit resumption Dec. 14, 2020 subject to conditions) (read as 2020-12-11)
In force
Sept. 28, 2020 to Dec. 11, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Gathering capCourts and public offices
Addressees
  • First Circuit (Oahu) courts
Functions reached
  • CT courts (Oahu, about 70 percent of the State's caseload)
Collection
Hawaii HI

Operative words

jury trials have been further postponed to November 16, 2020 as a result of changing public health conditions in the state... 1. All jury trials in the First Circuit shall be postponed to dates after December 11, 2020, unless otherwise ordered by the chief judge of the First Circuit. The First Circuit may resume conducting jury trials beginning on December [14, 2020]

Enforcement

Court order

Notes

More than 2,200 criminal jury trials were pending on Oahu alone (Chief Justice's 2021 State of the Judiciary)