Alaska

Criminal Procedure

Rule 19 – Change of Venue-Application to Court

All applications for change of place of trial in the cases provided by AS 22.10.040 or AS 22.15.080 shall be made by motion, supported by affidavit, upon five days’ notice to the other party, except that in misdemeanor cases the request may be made orally on the record. In the event that a change of place of trial shall be ordered, the clerk of the court in which the case is pending shall transmit to the clerk of the court to which the proceeding is transferred all papers in the proceeding, or duplicates thereof, and the prosecution shall continue in that court.

Alaska R. Crim. P. 19

Adopted by SCO 4 October 4, 1959; amended by SCO 49 effective January 1, 1963; by SCO 56 effective November 1, 1963; amended June 24, 2013, effective October 1, 2013.