When using either Doxpop's advanced Court Case Search or the Doxpop Court Case API, you have the option to filter by case type, which seems simple, but for one type, isn't:
MC, or "Miscellaneous Criminal" Is most often used in cases where a person has been arrested without a warrant and posts bond before their initial hearing, so formal charges have not yet been filed. In this situation, the primary purpose of opening a case is to document the bond receipt, and a separate case will be opened if charges are later filed.
Other less common uses are for:
- Criminal contempt for a party not already involved in a case.
- Documenting a BMV reinstatement fee waiver.
- Extradition.
- Empanelling a Grand Jury.
- Investigatory Subpoenas.
- Probable cause determinations prior to case creation.
- Search warrants prior to case creation.
- Seizure orders per IC 34-24-1.
- Problem solving cases accepted from outside the county.
- Petitions to appoint a special prosecutor.
- And, of course, other miscellaneous criminal matters.
And then there are the three special cases we just discovered:
- MCPT: Probation Transfer from another county or state.
- MCPF: A "case" opened only for the purpose of creating a record of payment for Probation User Fees.
- MCCT: For situations where the clerk has used the citation entry process to create a case that does not involve automated BMV processing.
The first two 4-character MC types are broken out separately for statistical purposes, and the third one is connected to a preferred data entry process.
