Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed April 10, 2022
URCrP042. Expungement. (NEW). This new proposed rule tracks the legislative changes regarding expungements.
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Posted: February 24, 2022
Posted: October 19, 2021
Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed December 3, 2021
URCrP011. Pleas. Amend. The proposed change would provide that both parties must either affirm or have the opportunity to withdraw from a plea agreement if the judge decides that the final disposition will not conform to the plea agreement to which the Court had previously approved. Also included are grammatical changes that make the rule comply with the court’s style guide.
Posted: March 31, 2021
Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed May 15, 2021
URCrP012. Motions. Amend. The proposed amendments to Rule 12 incorporate language from lines 59-63 of HJR 007 into paragraph (c)(3).
Posted: March 12, 2021
Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed April 26, 2021
URCrP006. Warrant of arrest or summons. Amended. The amendment clarifies that a judge must review the information to determine whether there is probable cause when the judge issues a warrant instead of a summons or when the judge issues a warrant based on a defendant’s failure to appear on a summons.
Posted: February 9, 2021
Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed March 26, 2021
URCrP017.5. Hearings with contemporaneous transmission from a different location. (AMEND). The proposed amendments will allow toxicologists to testify through remote transmission in misdemeanor cases provided appropriate safeguards are in place.
Posted: January 28, 2021
Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed March 14, 2021
URCrP042. Automatic expungement. NEW. A new rule establishing procedures for automatic expungement of certain cases described in Utah Code §77-40-114.
Posted: January 20, 2021
Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed March 6, 2021
URCrP016. This proposal incorporates changes suggested by the public comments to require disclosure of police officer’s notes only if they have not been incorporated into a police report, allowing defendants to waive the mandatory disclosures, and clarifying the notice procedure when a prosecutor decides a required disclosure is either not lawful or would endanger any person or an ongoing investigation.
Posted: January 9, 2019
Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed February 23, 2019
URCrP007B. The proposed amendment states that a motion to quash a bindover will be decided by the judge to whom the case is assigned after bindover.
URCrP016. The proposed amendments create greater specificity about the information that must be disclosed by the prosecution and by the defense. And the proposed amendments expand on the consequences for failing to disclose information.
URCrP027. The proposed amendments will allow a defendant to seek a stay upon filing a motion for a new trial.
Posted: June 21, 2018
Rules of Criminal Procedure – Comment Period Closed August 5, 2018
URCrP007C. Amend. The amendments to rule 7C will bring the rule in line with current practices. The rule clarifies the processes for securing a material witness’s testimony.
URCrP008. Amend. The amendments to rule 8 will make the rule consistent with developments in the law. The amendments will also require trial courts of record to appoint counsel on appeal from the roster maintained by the Board of Appellate Court Judges.
Posted: April 19, 2018
Rules of Criminal Procedure – comment period closed June 3, 2018
URCrP022 Amend. The proposed amendment will emphasize that the trial court should appoint appoint appellate counsel upon request from an indigent defendant.