Bernalillo County Metro Court

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About Metro Court
Accessing Metro Court
Exiting Metro Court Special Metro Court Commands Metro Court Codes and Descriptions Download Weekly Files Metro Court Inquiries Background Check Inquiry Viewing Options:: 1. Case Inquiry by Defendant Name
2. Case Inquiry by Case Number
3. Case Inquiry by Arrest Number
4. Case Inquiry by Social Security
Viewing Background Check Inquiry
Information Browse Court Docket

Civil Case Inquiry: 1. Inquiry by Defendant Name; 2. Inquiry by Plaintiff Name
3. Inquiry by Case Number
4. Case Inquiry by Date
Viewing Civil Case Inquiry Information
General Inquiry: 1. Parking Citation Inquiry
2. Parking Citation Inquiry by Name
Viewing Parking Citation Inquiry Information: 3. Alpha Citation Inquiry
4. Traffic/Misdemeanor Citation Inquiry by #
5. Traffic/Misdemeanor Citation Inquiry by Case #
Viewing Traffic/Misdemeanor Citation Information

About Metro Court

The Bernalillo County Metro Court database contains civil case records, background checks, court dockets, hearing dates, dispositions and much more that date back to 1984. However, if a case of this type is re-opened, the docket may date past 1984. Records contain information about the parties involved, dockets, dispositions and events/issues of the case.

NOTE: Bernalillo County Metro Court database is a Premium Service. When you connect to this service, you incur an additional per minute charge from Technet.

For more detailed information, please see pricing information for:

Accessing Metro Court

See Accessing Remote
Applications for how to
access the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court.

You will be connected via
Telnet to the Bernalillo County Metropolitan court.

(The screen at the right shows a background check).

 March 29, 1995       Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court                      
 01:45PM                      NMT Background Check
  
            Select one of the following;
             1. Case Inquiry by Defendant Name
             2. Case Inquiry by Case Number
             3. Case Inquiry by Arrest Number
             4. Case Inquiry by Social Security
             5. Browse Court Docket
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

            Option:
  
  
SA                                 TS_5250                        Help: Ctrl h
   Press your F5 for F4; F7 for F6 and Control-X then C to exit Metro Court

Exiting Metro Court

From any Metro Court screen, press [Ctrl]C. Your Telnet session should close automatically; if not, close it manually. See Exiting Remote Applications for more detail.

Special Metro Court Commands

The computer at the Bernalillo County Court House in Albuquerque is different from other Technet systems. The keys used are unique to it. The table below shows you the keys you should use when in Metro Court:

   KEY           NAME                 FUNCTION                        
   [F2]          Exit current screen  Exits the current screen and
                                      returns to the previous screen. 
  [Ctrl]-E      Erase Input           Erase field where the cursor is
                                      positioned.                     
  [Backspace]   Backspace             Moves the cursor to the left one
                 or                   character at a time.  THIS DOES
  [Lt]          Left Arrow            NOT ERASE.  Use [Ctrl]-E to
                                      erase the field.                
  [Ctrl]-R      Error Reset           Resets the screen if there is an
                                      error. THE SCREEN MUST BE RESET
                                      BEFORE YOU CAN CONTINUE.         
  [Ctrl]-W      Screen Refresh       May be necessary if a system
                                     information message appears.

NOTE: There are other special Metro Court command tables located throughout this section that are specific to the Metro Court function you are using.

Function Keys

Some of the keys you use in Metro Court are reversed from their normal functions. The table below shows which keys have swapped functions:

   METRO COURTSCREEN KEYS            PRESS. . . 
        F4                           [F5]
        F6                           [F7]
      RollDn                       [PgUp]
      RollUp                       [PgDn]

Metro Court Codes and Descriptions

Agency Abbreviations, Charge Types, Judge Codes, Pleas, etc. are available. These descriptions are very helpful in interpreting the codes that you see when viewing Metro Court information:

Agency Abbreviations
Hearing Types
Bond Types
Judge Codes
Bonding Agency Codes
Judgement Codes
Charge Types
Parking/Traffic Status
Civil Hearing Types
Pleas
Civil Case Status
School Types
Civil Docketing Codes
Download Files

Download Weekly Files

This feature allows you to download a summary of Metro Court activities. These summary files are available on a weekly basis. The file name indicates the week included in the file, e.g., (970228.EXE): February 28, 1997 contains a summary of Metro Court activities covering the week ending February 28, 1997.

Saving a File in Your Browser

Netscape: Click on the file name. You may then browse to a location to save. The file will be downloaded. You must then run it (see File Format).

Internet Explorer: Click on the file name. Pick the Save to disk option, browse to where you want to save it, and then run the file separately. (see File Format).

File Format

In order to save time downloading these files, they are stored as self-extracting (*.exe) compressed files. Before viewing any of these files, you must first uncompress them by executing the self-extracting program. This is done by typing Filename then [Enter].

EXAMPLE: To use 9555.EXE, type: "9555"[Enter]. This uncompresses 9555.EXE into two files, FILINGS and DOCKET.

File Descriptions

For an explanation of the data contained in these files, see the Download Files section.

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