If you have a court date and you are not able to attend, or if you must provide documents to the court and cannot meet the deadline, you must file a Motion to Continue and a Notice of Hearing. Your request for a continuance and hearing must be filed as far in advance as possible.
Motions to continue are not automatically granted. There must be a showing of good cause for the continuance to be granted. Do not assume your motion to continue was granted just because you filed a motion.
Every matter submitted for determination to a judge of the superior court for decision shall be determined and a ruling made not later than sixty days from submission thereof, in ance with Section 21. Article VI of the Arizona Constitution.
Unless made at trial or an evidentiary hearing, a motion to strike may be filed only if it is expressly authorized by statute or other rule, or if it seeks to strike any part of a filing or submission on the ground that it is prohibited, or not authorized, by a specific statute, rule, or court order.
There is no set number because there are any number of reasons a continuance could be asked for.
A party desiring reconsideration of a decision must file a motion for reconsideration in the appellate court within 15 days after the appellate court enters its decision. A party may amend a motion for reconsideration only with the appellate court's permission.
What happens next? If we filed the motion to strike in a trial court, then we will set the motion to be heard by a judge or magistrate, and be ruled upon. If we filed it in an appeals court, the appeals court will read the motion and offending document and will rule on it without hearing.
In a Nutshell: A judge may deny a Motion to Continue filed by the prosecution, even if it foreseeably means a motion to suppress may be granted, resulting in dismissal of the case.