FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA 

 

ADMINISTRATIVE GOVERNING BOARD 
OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA 
 
No. 22 of 2020 
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n re:  Expedited Criminal Motions -To be Filed Electronically and Decided on the Papers 

 
ORDER 
 

AND NOW, this 27th day March, 2020, consistent with the Emergency Judicial Order 

 
issued on March 17th, 2020 (No. 10 of 2020), and the Supreme Court Orders of March 16th and 
March 18th, 2020 (Nos. 531 and 532 Judicial Administration Docket), authorizing the filing and 
disposition of certain matters deemed to involve essential functions of the Court, and further 
directing the Courts to, whenever possible, consider deciding matters on the papers, IT IS 
HEREBY ORDERED and DECREED that the following motions: Motions to Modify Bail, 
Motions to Lift Detainers, Motions to Lift Bench Warrants, and Motions for Early Parole are a 
component of the Court’s essential functions, and may be filed and disposed on the papers as 
provided below: 
 

(1) Each of the above Motion types shall be filed through the Court’s Criminal Electronic 

Filing System at https://fjdefile.phila.gov/; 

(2) A separate motion must be filed for each case, and each type of relief, except for Motions 

for Early Parole which may list any of Defendant’s cases for which Early Parole is 
requested; 

(3) The Motion shall provide all necessary factual and legal information establishing 

entitlement to the requested relief. The relief requested must be specifically stated; 
(4) The movant must notify the Commonwealth (District Attorney’s Office) prior to filing 

the Motion, and must obtain and attach a letter from the District Attorney’s Office setting 
forth the DAO’s position on the Motion.  

(5) Upon filing, the Motion will be assigned to the Supervising Judge of the Criminal Section 
of the Trial Division, the Honorable Leon Tucker, or his designee, regardless of which 
Court of Common Pleas judge may have been assigned to the case; and to the Honorable 
Patrick F. Dugan, President Judge of the Municipal Court, or his designee, regardless of 
which Municipal Court Judge may have been assigned to the case; and 

(6) The assigned Judge will review the legal papers filed and will issue an appropriate order 
which will be served on the parties by the Office of Judicial Records either through the 
Electronic Filing System or otherwise. 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

BY THE COURT: 
 
 
/s/ Idee C. Fox 
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Honorable Idee C. Fox, President Judge 
Chair, Administrative Governing Board 
First Judicial District of Pennsylvania  
President  Judge,  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
Philadelphia County 

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