Local Criminal Rule 7.1
                          PROCEDURE BEFORE SENTENCING


   A defendant convicted of a crime shall be sentenced as soon thereafter as
possible, consistent with the necessity for securing a pre-sentence report and
related diagnostic evaluations, where appropriate.  In no case will any order
be entered which has the effect of delaying sentencing pending the initiation
or completion of a rehabilitative treatment program (as distinguished from a
diagnostic evaluation).


[Adopted Effective April 1, 1986, September 1, 2003]