RULE CRLJ 63
                       JUDGES--DISABILITY


    If by reason of death, sickness or other disability, a judge
before whom an action has been tried is unable to perform the
duties to be performed by the court under these rules after a
verdict is returned or findings of fact and conclusions of law
are entered, then any other judge regularly sitting in or
assigned to the court in which the action was tried may perform
those duties; but if such other judge is satisfied that he or she
cannot perform those duties because the judge did not preside at
the trial or for any other reason, the judge may in the exercise
of discretion grant a new trial.


[Adopted effective September 1, 1984; Amended effective November 25, 2003]