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Micah William Janso Smith
Judge · U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
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Biography
Professional career
- Professional Career: Co-chief, Violent Crime and Drug Section, 2018-2019
- Professional Career: Chief, Appeals and Legal Strategy, 2022-2024
- Professional Career: Co-chief, Violent and Organized Crime Unit, 2017-2018
- Professional Career: Law clerk, Hon. David H. Souter, Supreme Court of the United States, 2007-2008
- Professional Career: Project Safe Neighborhoods Coordinator, 2019
- Professional Career: Assistant U.S. attorney, Criminal Division, District of Hawaii, 2018-2024
- Professional Career: Criminal civil rights coordinator, 2021-2024
- Professional Career: Law clerk, Hon. Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2006-2007
- Professional Career: Deputy chief, Criminal Division, 2019-2024
- Professional Career: Acting deputy chief, Criminal Appeals Unit, 2016-2017
- Professional Career: Lecturer in law, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, 2020
- Professional Career: Private practice, Washington, D.C., 2008-2012
- Professional Career: Assistant U.S. attorney, Criminal Division, Southern District of New York, 2012-2018
- Professional Career: Deputy chief, Violent and Organized Crime Unit, 2016-2017
Education
- Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania · B.A., 2003
- University of Pennsylvania · B.A., 2003
- Harvard Law School · J.D., 2006
Personal record
Born 1981 · Mill Hall
Micah William Janso Smith Procedures & Courtroom Rules
Presentation Procedure
Judge Specific
Judge-specific source
IX. USE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Pursuant to the Order Adopting Electronic Device Policy, effective March 18, 2014, any person may bring into the courthouse an electronic device, such as a cellular phone, smartphone, laptop, tablet, or similar deviceMWJS%20Individual%20Rules%20of%20Practice.pdf ↗
Remote appearances
Courtwide
In federal district-court civil proceedings, testimony is ordinarily taken in open court; remote contemporaneous testimony requires good cause in compelling circumstances and appropriate safeguards.
For good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards, the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location.Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court ↗
Recording and broadcasting
Courtwide
Federal district courts may not permit courtroom photography or broadcasting during criminal judicial proceedings unless a statute or another federal rule provides an exception.
Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom.Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited ↗
Sources
Federal Judicial Center biography
Identity source · HTML · checked July 25, 2026
View Federal Judicial Center biography ↗MWJS%20Individual%20Rules%20of%20Practice.pdf
Judge Specific source · PDF · checked July 24, 2026
View MWJS%20Individual%20Rules%20of%20Practice.pdf ↗Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court
Courtwide source · HTML · checked July 26, 2026
View Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court ↗Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited
Courtwide source · HTML · checked July 26, 2026
View Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited ↗