As soon as the application is received, the clerk’s office of the court of appeal shall request from the clerk’s office of the court which handed down the decision to dismiss, acquit or acquit the case the file of the criminal proceedings or, if those proceedings are still pending in respect of persons other than the applicant, the copy of the file.
Within fifteen days of receipt of this file, the registry of the court of appeal shall send a copy of the request to the public prosecutor at the court of appeal and, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, to the judicial agent of the State.