SLR 4-16.055: POSTPONEMENTS OF TRIAL

(1) Either a citing officer or recipient of a violation citation may obtain one postponement of a trial setting by submitting a timely written or electronic request to the court or timely appearing in person before the Clerk of the Court. Requests will be considered timely if received by the court at least 14 days prior to the trial date. (2) Untimely, and second or subsequent trial postponement requests will be denied except for good cause shown, as determined by a judicial officer. In all events, it is the requesting party’s burden to determine, prior to an existing trial date, whether a postponement request has been granted or denied and to appear for the existing trial date unless the request has been granted. (3) Trial postponement requests made in open court on the day of trial may be considered in the discretion of the presiding judicial officer, for good cause shown. The presiding judicial officer may postpone a trial on the judicial officer’s own initiative in the judicial officer’s discretion. (4) When the court grants a trial postponement, the court will send the parties a new trial notice as provided in SLR 16.015(2)(b).