SEXUAL OFFENSES DIVISION
CRIMINAL COURT “E”
8TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NIMBA COUNTY
REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
His Honor Musa S. Sidibey
Resident Circuit Judge
Sexual Offenses Division Criminal Court “E”
8th Judicial Circuit, Nimba County
Jurisdiction: The Sexual Offenses Division of the Criminal Court “E”, 8th Judicial Circuit of Nimba County, exercises exclusive jurisdiction over all new cases of Sexual Offenses in Nimba County.
The Sexual Offenses Division Criminal Court “E” shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over the crimes of Rape, Gang Rape, Aggravated Involuntary Sodomy, Involuntary Sodomy, Voluntary Sodomy, Corruption of Minors, Sexual Abuse of Wards and Sexual Assault and such other crimes as may from time to time be added as Sexual Offenses to Sub-Chapter D of Chapter 14 and 16 of the Penal Law as well as trafficking in persons insofar as it involves sexual servitude (hereinafter referred to as “Sexual Offenses”).
Appointment and tenure of Resident Judge: The President shall nominate and with the consent of the Senate, appoint and commission the Judge of the Court who shall be the Resident Judge. He/she shall hold office during good behavior or on attaining the age of 70.
Opening dates of the Sexual Offenses Division Criminal Court “E” 8th Judicial Circuit: The Sexual Offenses Division of the 8th Judicial Circuit shall meet four times a year in quarterly sessions, opening their quarterly sessions on the second Monday in February, May, August, and November in each year. The quarterly sessions of this Circuit shall be entitled the February, May, August and November Terms of court.
Duration of each Term: Ten days before the opening of each quarterly session, there shall be a pre-trial chamber session to be held by the circuit judge assigned to sit during the quarterly sessions which shall immediately be followed by a trial session beginning with the opening of each quarterly session and continuing for forty-two consecutive days not including Sundays and legal holidays unless sooner terminated because all business before the court is disposed of before the expiration of that period. Immediately following the close of the trial session there shall be a ten-day closing chamber session to be held by the judge assigned to sit for the quarterly session and any judge concurrently assigned to the circuit.
The Sexual Offenses Division of Criminal Court “E”, 8th Judicial Circuit, Nimba County shall be considered always open for adjudication of matters over which it has jurisdiction and for the purpose of filing any pleading or other paper authorized by rule or statute, of issuing and returning mesne and final process and of making and directing all interlocutory motions, orders and rules. Wherever they are present within the circuit, the Judge assigned to a Sexual Offenses Division of the Circuit Court, during his assignment and the pre-trial chamber session prior thereto, concurrently with the resident judge thereof, shall have authority to act on all matters coming before the court; and if neither is available, then except for the trial of an action and any motions in connection therewith which may be made during and after such trial or any motion for an order that would dispose of the action, in whole or in part, in any manner other than the settlement of an action or claim involving an infant or judicially declared incompetent, all other matters may be heard by the presiding judge of the Circuit Court adjoining the circuit where the action is triable.