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                   RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ARE REORGANIZED


     The Court has ordered, effective April 1, 2001, the reorganization
and renumbering of the Rules of Criminal Procedure and adopted 
correlative amendments to a number of rules.  With this reorganization 
and renumbering, the rules are presented in a more logical fashion that
more accurately reflects the movement of a criminal case through the 
criminal justice system, thereby making the rules easier to follow to 
the conclusion of a criminal proceeding.

      Within the next few weeks, we will be issuing either a laser fax
Or we will be mailing a derivation and a disposition table that was 
Prepared by the Criminal Procedural Rules Committee.  The disposition 
table lists the former rule numbers in numerical order and 
cross-references to the new rule. For example:

Former Rule 4001              New Rule 520
            4002                       523
            4003                       524


     The derivation table lists the new rules in numerical order and
cross-references to the former rule. For example:

New Rule     520          Former Rule 4001
             521                      4009
             522                      4017 	
  

      The complete text of the rules as renumbered and amended can be 
accessed through JNET or from the Court's homepage at 
www.courts.state.pa.us.  To access from the Court's homepage, go to 
step 3.
 
1. On the JNET Homepage, click Agencies which is located on the side bar;
then click AOPC.  The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts
screen appears.

2. Click What's New located under Site Highlights.  The Updates to the
Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System's Web Site screen appears.



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3. Click the UJS tab.  The Pennsylvania's unified judicial system 
hierarchical structure in the form of a pyramid appears.

4. Click Supreme Court Committees, which is located below the pyramid.
The Supreme Court Committees screen appears.

5. Click Criminal Procedural Rules Committee.  The Criminal Procedural 
Rules Committee screen appears.

6. Click Reorganized, Renumbered Rules of Criminal Procedure.  The 
Criminal Procedural Revised Rules screen appears.  The rules are listed
by their current numbering system.