More Categories

Rule 48 – Clerk’s Office; Judge’s Chambers; Communications with the Court

May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, New Hampshire

(a) No witnesses, police personnel, prosecutors, defense counsel or defendants shall be permitted into a clerk’s office or judge’s chambers, except when necessary and as authorized by the court.
(b) Except where ex parte communications with the court are authorized by law, no person shall make any statement with regard to the merits of that person’s case, orally or in writing, to any judge in whose court or before whom any suit, petition or other proceeding is pending or to be heard or tried except in open court or in the presence of all parties thereto.

N.H. R. Crim. P. 48

Adopted effective January 1, 2016 in Strafford and Cheshire counties and July 1, 2016 in Belknap County.

Comment

Rule 48 is consistent with the General Rules of the Circuit Court of the State of New Hampshire – District Division, as set forth in Rule 1.6 (“Clerks office and judges chambers”).