Rule 17: Docket Call, Arraignment, and Trial Practice

17.1	The procedures for the call of dockets of the courts shall be established by the judges handling such dockets and pursuant to the policies and procedures of the court. See K.S.A. 12-4404.
17.2	The conduct and demeanor of attorneys when present during any court proceeding shall reflect respect for the dignity and authority of the court, and the proceedings conducted in court shall be maintained by the court as an objective search for the applicable facts and the correct principles of law. Attorneys at law should be dressed appropriately for the dignity and decorum of a courtroom proceeding for any appearance, hearing or trial scheduled for any courtroom on the court's docket.
17.3	An attorney must stand when addressed by the judge or when speaking to the judge, unless leave is granted to counsel to remain seated. Unless the judge specifically prescribes otherwise, an attorney must stand when interrogating a witness and should refrain from moving about except as may be necessary for the presentation of exhibits or other assistance to the court.
17.4	Except as the judge may specifically permit otherwise, only one attorney may examine or cross-examine a witness on behalf of all parties united in interest.
17.5	Exhibits offered and received in evidence by the Court shall, at the conclusion of hearing or trial, be returned to the offering party or his or her counsel unless otherwise ordered by the Court. Counsel withdrawing an exhibit shall have it available for use by either party at a subsequent trial or upon appeal. Exhibits not withdrawn within six (6) months after final determination (including expiration of time for appeal) may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the court directs after notice to counsel.
17.6	No defendant or attorney appearing will be permitted to continue, to set for hearing, or to try any case before the municipal court if such defendant is not personally present in court when such defendant has outstanding municipal court warrants pending against him or her or when such defendant is otherwise a fugitive from justice in any other matter before the Municipal Court. No defendant will be permitted to be represented in absentia in any case while failing or refusing to submit to the jurisdiction of the municipal court in any other case pending before the municipal court. In such cases the municipal court judge shall note the appearance of the defendant's counsel (if any) in absence of the defendant, the fact of the outstanding warrants or other matters in which the defendant at that time has failed to submit to the jurisdiction of the court, enter a bond forfeiture therein, and issue a bench warrant for the arrest of such defendant notwithstanding the appearance by his or her counsel in such scheduled case, until and unless all such outstanding warrants or show cause orders against such defendant are set aside by court order.
17.7	No attorney shall be permitted to request the withdrawal of any warrant, or to continue any case, in which such attorney is not a counsel of record.
17.8	Whenever any defendant has an outstanding municipal court bench warrant for failure to appear in court on any case, and where such defendant has failed or refused to surrender in person on such warrant and submit to the jurisdiction of the municipal court in such case, none of the time from the date such warrant is ordered by the Court (regardless of the date such warrant may be issued or served) until the defendant appears personally in municipal court to surrender on such warrants will be chargeable to the City of Wichita for the purposes of statutory speedy trial in that case or in any other pending case in which such defendant is charged. So long as a defendant remains a fugitive from justice in any municipal court case for failure to appear as directed as a condition of bond or release from custody, such defendant may not take advantage of the protections of the statutory speedy trial protections provided by K.S.A. 21- 3106, and as amended.

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