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How do I know whether my case is in Criminal Divsion or Child Support Enforecment Division Court?<\/p>\n
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You should receive a subpoena telling you to appear in Court on a specific date and time. Your subpoena provides information related to the court proceedings for which you are due, and which party issued the subpoena for you to appear.<\/p>\n
If you are a victim or witness in a Criminal Court case, you may also contact our Assistant Victim Witness Coordinator assigned to your case.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 8:30 AM<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Unless the defendant is in jail, they will have to appear in court and be in the court room. We have a safe space area that a victim witness coordinator can lead you to after you check in with them. The defendants do not have access to this room.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 After you check in with the victim witness coordinator, they will let the District Attorney know that you are there, and you will have the opportunity to speak with them if you would like.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Expect to be there all day. Unfortunately, the cases are in no specific order. It depends on when the DA and defense attorney get the case to the judge, so your case could be taken up first thing in the morning, or in the late afternoon.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 What to wear: business dress, suit, or pants, dress like you would for an interview or church<\/p>\n
\u2022 What to avoid: jeans, shorts, tight or revealing clothing, clothing with holes<\/p>\n
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Expungement is the process to remove a charge or charges from a public criminal record. This option may be available to certain offenders. Learn more about the expungement process and how to apply at the link provided below.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”http:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/expungement” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Expungement Details” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#FFFFFF” button_bg_color=”gcid-cac62778-b0ea-4a03-b9e9-1ea0f6f38c97″ global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-cac62778-b0ea-4a03-b9e9-1ea0f6f38c97%22:%91%22button_bg_color%22%93}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frequently Asked QuestionsHow do I know whether my case is in Criminal Divsion or Child Support Enforecment Division Court?You should receive a subpoena telling you to appear in Court on a specific date and time. Your subpoena provides information related to the court proceedings for which you are due, and which party issued the subpoena […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennesseeda.gov\/district-13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}