Go to the clerk's office in the court where the case was handled. Ask to review the file. You'll find some kind of disposing document, either an order, a verdict, or a disposition or some other document that shows how the case was disposed of.
It IS possible that it is a clerical error. Go to the court in which you were convicted. At the Clerk of Court's office and ask to see your court file. The final disposition of your case (felony or misdemeanor) will appear there. If you find that the background record is incorrect, ask the personnel at that office how to go about getting it corrected.
Courts store case files under case or citation numbers. If you have a citation or case number, you can go to the court and pull the file (unless sealed, it is public record.) The file will show the disposition.
You may ask for a Continuance (motion and notice). However, if you still can't find an attorney (just because your last attorney dropped the case) you have to represent yourself. The law is that the legal process continues - with the party available. You may sue your attorney if he dropped the case because he have to have a mighty good reason to drop a case - you may also make sure you take him to the legal board in your state. That's what I will do with the rat who dropped my case -- after I finish with my case.
That the case is put on hold for a period of time if the prosecution does not follow up the defendent should have the charges expungedAnother View: The above description refers to a case which is SUSPENDED not retired.I could find only two possible meanings of the word "retire" when applied to courts. The first refers to the jury - A jury retires after hearing all testimony, evidence, arguments of counsel, and instructions by the court, and retires (i.e. moves) from the courtroom to the jury room in order to to consider their verdict.The second is in the use of the word to refer to court cases and court documents which are transferred into storage (i.e.: the 'retirement' of records.
You should be able to, as court cases are public record.
Even if the case settled prior to trial - if the case was filed with The Clerk of The Court and it appeared on the court's docket, then there would be a publicly available record of it in the Court Clerk's Office. You would have to know where, and in what court system, the case was filed in order to locate the records of the proceedings and learn what the final dispostion was.
Call the court clerk and they will tell you.
Find a new one. If the divorce litigation is pending but no trial date has been fixed, the court will probably give you some short amount of time to find a new lawyer to take over the case. You will have to show the court that you are making efforts to retain a new lawyer. Eventually the case will proceed whether or not you have a new attorney. If a trial date has been set, the attorney probably has to get leave of court before getting out of the case. If a trial date is imminent, some courts will not allow the lawyer to get out of the case, since changing attorneys at that late date involves delaying the disposition of the case unnecessarily.
Did you ever find out? wondering this myself
take it to court Answer You find a lawyer to represent you and he or she files the case.
Court cases are a public record - anyone can look at them (unless the case is currently active). Go to the Clerk of the Court's office at the courthouse and reqeust to look at the case file.
If the case has reached the court stage you can go to the Clerk Of The Court's office and give them the name of the case and they should be able to tell you at what point the case stands.