(b) Circuit Court No. 5: February, April, June, August, October, and December.

(3) A “pending” case is a case not yet disposed of by guilty plea, jury trial, bench trial, bench disposition, or dismissal.

(C) Transfer and Reassignment.

A judge may transfer and reassign to any of the other five Circuit Court Judges a pending case, by issuing a written order for transfer, and subject to the receiving court’s acceptance, unless the conditions below are met, and acceptance is not required.

If a Defendant charged with a pending felony case is later charged with a higher felony, the Court with the lower level felony shall transfer the lower level felony case to the court with the higher pending felony case, either on its own motion or at a party’s request.

A “pending” case is a case not yet disposed of by guilty plea, jury trial, bench trial, bench disposition, or dismissal.

If the case transferred is a Level 5 or Level 6 felony, the transferring court shall order the Clerk to transfer the case to the receiving court, and the Clerk shall transfer the case without an order of acceptance.

(D) Filing and Reassignment of Class Level 6 felony or D felony Cases.

Any Level 6 felony or Class D felony case may be filed in the Division of the Circuit Court that holds another pending felony charge, regardless of when the Level 6 felony or Class D felony offense was allegedly committed.

(E) Re-filing by the State.

In the event the State of Indiana dismisses a case and later re-files that case, the State shall file the case in the court which dismissal was taken.

In the event the State of Indiana dismisses a case, any subsequent related cases filed against such defendant within ninety (90) days shall be assigned to the court from which dismissal was taken.

(F) Additional Related Charges.

If the State files additional related charges against a Defendant, after the case is initially assigned, the State shall file all additional related charges in the court of initial assignment.

(G) Additional Unrelated Charges.
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