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Magistrate Judge Duty and Courtroom Rotation

This page outlines the general plan for duty and courtroom rotation.  Please consult the daily calendars for each judge posted in the building and on this web site to verify the proper courtroom.   
Current calendars:   Pead    Romero    Oberg    Bennett    Wells    SLC CVB Calendar               
Criminal Calendar Rotation Policy


Criminal Calendar Rotation and Courtroom Assignments

  2023 -8.400 2024 -8.400
January Bennett  
February Romero  
March Oberg  
April Pead  
May Bennett  
June Romero  
July Oberg  
August Bennett  
September Pead  
October Romero  
November Oberg  
December Pead  

Additional Duty Rotation and Specific Courtroom Assignments

2023

Judge Oberg Specialized Behavioral Health Docket:
Mondays,10am -12 noon, Room TBD
Judge Romero Specialized Drug Docket:
Tuesdays, 10:30am to 2:00 pm, Room TBD
Judge Pead Tribal Court - Vernal Judge Bennett

Tribal Cout - Aneth

CVB Military Calendar
(Dugway, Tooele, VA Hospital)
CVB Military Calendar
(HAFB)
CVB Resource Calendar
(NPS, USDI, BLM, BIA, FPS)
CVB St George CVB Glen Canyon 
(Big Water)
CVB Moab, Vernal, Monticello CVB Aneth
Kohler Bennett Kohler Kohler Kohler Pead Bennett
Dugway/Tooele- 1:30 PM

VA Med Center- 2:00 PM

9:00 AM Optional & Mandatory Appearances

9:00 AM 

10:00 AM 

11:00 AM

Moab - 9:00 AM
Vernal - 9:30 AM

 9:00 AM
United States Courthouse
Salt Lake City, UT 

Room TBD

United States Courthouse
Salt Lake City, UT

Room TBD

United States Courthouse
Salt Lake City, UT 

Room TBD

206 West Tabernacle 
St. George, Utah

Room 2B

Big Water Town Hall
115 Aaron Burr
Big Water, Utah

Suite C

Grand County District Court
125 E Center St.
Moab, UT

 

8th District Court
920 US-40
Vernal, UT

 
2023 2023 2023 2023 2023 2023  
January 25, 2023 January 25, 2023 January 19, 2023    

January 6, 2023 (Moab)

January 5, 2023 
February 22, 2023 February 22, 2023 February 16, 2023       February 3, 2023 
March 29, 2023 March 29, 2023 March 16, 2023     March 3, 2023 (Moab) March 2, 2023
April 26, 2023 April 26, 2023 April 20, 2023    

April 26, 2023(Vernal @ 11 am)

April 7, 2023 
May 31, 2023 May 31, 2023 May 18, 2023     May 5, 2023 (Moab) May 4, 2023
June 28, 2023 June 28, 2023 June 15, 2023       June 2, 2023 
July 26, 2023 July 26, 2023 July 20, 2023     July 7, 2023 (Moab)
July 26, 2023 (Vernal @ 11am)
July 6, 2023 
August 30, 2023 August 30, 2023 Augut 17, 2023       August 4, 2023
September 27, 2023 September 27, 2023 September 21, 2023     September 8, 2023 (Moab) September 7, 2023
October 25, 2023 October 25, 2023 October 19, 2023     October 25, 2023(Vernal @ 11am) October 6, 2023
November 29, 2023 November 29, 2023 November 16, 2023     November 3, 2023 (Moab) November 2, 2023
December 20, 2023 December 20, 2023 December 21, 2023       December 8, 2023
             
             

 


Criminal Calendar Rotation Policy

The following policy was established by Chief Magistrate Judge Samuel Alba in October 2004 and has been updated:

1. All new criminal matters, including new complaints, initial appearances, arraignments on indictments, grand jury proceedings, trap and trace, search warrants, seizure warrants, Rule 5 proceedings, initial appearances on supervised release and probation violations, etc., will be handled by magistrate judges on a rotation basis. This will include any evening hour/weekend needs as well.  The duty magistrate judge should be notified of any weekend or holiday arrest on misdemeanor cases.

2. Starting in 2011, rotation is on a monthly basis. The rotation schedule will start at 12:01 a.m. the first day of the month and end at 12:00 midnight on the last day of the month.

3. If a new criminal matter is to be brought, it should be presented to the magistrate judge on duty during the applicable period. For Judge Pead call Teri Sparrow at 801-524-6155, for Judge Romero call Melissa Saddler at 801-524-6422, for Judge Oberg call Lynsie Severnak at 801-524-6180, for Judge Bennett call Kirsten Mumford at 801-524-6620.

4. The on-duty magistrate judge will begin hearings in the morning and continue throughout the day as needed.

5. Review of detention and/or appointment or withdrawal of counsel matters and violations of pre-trial release will be handled by the magistrate judge who handled the initial appointment of counsel or detention hearing.  Review of detention orders imposed by Magistrate Judges Alba or Nuffer will pass to the duty magistrate judge. Copies of those filings should be transmitted directly to that magistrate judge.  These documents are not automatically routed to the magistrate judge in CM/ECF.  

6. Initial appointment of counsel for indigent defendants, including initial appointment of counsel for defendants who initially retained counsel,  is handled by the duty magistrate judge.

7.  All other matters on referred criminal cases will go to the referenced magistrate judge.

8.  The magistrate judges are sharing courtrooms for some purposes.  Please consult the daily calendars posted in the building and on the court's web site to verify the proper courtroom.

Revised 3/9/2023