MN Advisory Comm Exhibits 1-18 - Minnesota Judicial Branch

some agency decisions.
2) Supreme Court alsc prescribes rules
governing conduct of attorneys and regulates
practice, pleading and evidentiary rules.
3) Unlike U.S. Supreme Court, the Minnesota
Supreme Court must consider all appeals brought
to it. To expedita the process there is a
pre-appeal conference in civil cases during
which a justice and the parties sit down and
discuss the appealable issues.
4) There are also four court commissioners who
pre-screen cases and suggests whether the case
should be heard by 3, 5, or all 9 judges.
The commissioners also make recommendations
that some cases'by'dispersed of by per curiam
(by the court) opinions.
5) Appeals from the Minnesota Supreme Court may
be taken to the dnited States Supreme Court
if the issue concerns the consitutionality
of a state statute or ordinance.
II. Criminal Cases - State Court
A. Traffic and Ordinance Violations Bureaus
1) Handles traffic tickets and minor ordinance
violations. 11 one pays the fine, he/she
pleads guilty and pays the penalty at the
same time.
21 Failure to pay fine transfers jurisdiction
to the Municipal Cow t in Hennepin or Ramsey
County or to the Craunty Court in the other
85 districts.
B. Municipal Court - Hennepin and Ramsey County
County Courts - Rural Minnesota
1) Jurisdiction over misdemeanors (violation of
statutes or ordinances punishable by penalties
not exceeding 90 days in jail and/or a $300
fine) committed within that county's borders.
2) Jurisdiction to hear violation of ordinances
or statutes of the city in which the court is
located.
3) 'Jurisdiction to conduct preliminary hearings
for violation of any btate criminal statute.