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Ex. IA-052 Order Primary source read

Supervisory Order, In the Matter of Ongoing Provisions for Coronavirus/COVID-19 Impact on Court Services (jury trials postponed)

Order continuing all jury trials not commenced and scheduled before February 1, 2021 to no earlier than February 1, 2021 and suspending grand jury proceedings to February 1, 2021

Iowa Supreme Court · Iowa (all State courts) (Court)

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Jurisdiction
Iowa (all State courts) · Iowa
Level
Court
Authority
Iowa Const. art. V, §§ 1, 4
Issued
2020-11-10 Nov. 10, 2020
Effective
2020-11-10 (no jury trials from November 16, 2020) (read as 2020-11-10)
End
2021-02-01
In force
Nov. 10, 2020 to Feb. 1, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Courts and public offices
Addressees
  • all Iowa courts, attorneys, litigants, jurors
Functions reached
  • CT second statewide jury-trial suspension (winter 2020-21)
  • CL/SV court-dependent transactions
Collection
Iowa IA

Operative words

'1. Jury trial postponement. All jury trials that have not commenced as of [November 16, 2020 and are] scheduled to begin before February 1, 2021 shall be continued to a date no earlier than February 1, 2021. Other than jury trials already in progress, there will be no jury trials from November 16, 2020 through [January 31, 2021].... 5. Grand jury proceedings. All grand jury proceedings shall be suspended until February 1, 2021.'

Enforcement

Supervisory order; speedy-trial deadlines expanded to 120 and 180 days

Notes

Four pages; issued the same day as the Governor's November 10 proclamation (IA-029).

Retrieval note

Four-page scanned PDF read by OCR.

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