Administrative Order No. 2020-002: Further Case Postponements and Reduced Dockets in Response to the Coronavirus Threat

The record

Jurisdiction

City of Cleveland (Cleveland Municipal Court district), Ohio · Cleveland · Ohio

Level

Court

Authority

R.C. 1901; Sup. R. 5; R.C. 2945.71-.72 (speedy trial)

Issued

2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020

Effective

2020-03-16 (cases Mar. 16 to Apr. 17, 2020 rescheduled five weeks out) (read as 2020-03-16)

End

2020-04-09 (superseded by AO 2020-003 and the Amended Order Declaring Judicial Emergency) (read as 2020-04-09)

In force

Mar. 16, 2020 to Apr. 9, 2020

Quarters

2020 Q2

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Courts and public offices

Addressees

• all defendants and counsel in the Cleveland Municipal Court
• Clerk of Court

Functions reached

• CT courts (municipal criminal and traffic dockets)
• OF law-office practice
• CB defendants

Collection

Cleveland MET-CLE

Operative words

the Judges agree to continue a reduced docket that focuses solely on jailed defendants and emergency matters that come before the Court... the criminal cases scheduled on the personal dockets of the judges of this court or on an arraignment docket from Monday, March 16, 2020 through Friday, April 17, 2020 are hereby ordered rescheduled for hearing exactly five weeks from the originally scheduled date and time.

Enforcement