April Bristow
County Judge · Palm Beach County Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
County Judge · Palm Beach County Court
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834 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge April Bristow across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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County Criminal — Divisions L
Also: T2
Courtroom 9.2210
On this assignment since June 8, 2026
County Criminal — Divisions L · T2
Main Judicial Complex — 9.2210 / courtroom 9F
Misdemeanor Competency Docket scope verified from the order footnote. Matters five minutes or less set Monday and Thursday 8:30 a.m.; over 30 minutes generally afternoon; provide a copy of the motion when noticing.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 15th's own judges grid publishes assignment and phone facts but no biography prose. A court fact, not a harvest gap.
Captured verbatim from the court's own published pages and orders during circuit verification. Chambers practices change without notice — confirm anything time-critical with the judicial assistant. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Fourth District Court of Appeal (West Palm Beach).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Alan O. Forst, Burton C. Conner, Caroline Shepherd, Cory J. Ciklin, Johnathan D. Lott, Jonathan D. Gerber, Mark W. Klingensmith, Melanie G. May, Robert M. Gross, Shannon K. Shaw, Spencer D. Levine
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Verified against AO 11.101-06/2026 (signed 6/5/2026, eff. 6/8/2026 — fetched + sha256-hashed cb1b9451…, all 4 pages transcribed) and the live division instruction page (fetched + hashed 2026-07-22).
7 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 834 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 6 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 6 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (March 14, 2024–June 4, 2026) that name this judge as the lower-tribunal judge — the courts’ own disposition labels, counted verbatim. This is a census of the appellate record we hold, not a complete case history, an affirmance rate, or a performance rating.
Florida appellate and Supreme Court opinions naming this judge as the lower-tribunal judge, taken verbatim from each court’s official slip opinion (source-hashed). Descriptive record, not a rating.
Jean Guy Blanc v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 3, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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2 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach Division L on remote appearance policy.
Judge Bristow lets parties Zoom into case dispositions and status checks any day (in-custody defendants excused), with defense counsel conferring with the State beforehand — all other remote appearances need a written motion 3 days out.
Evan Kaye Otis v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jeffrey M. Hastings v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Brandon Edward Waterman v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Safepoint Insurance Company v. Rapid Recovery Team, LLC a/a/o Regine Ambroise
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Michael Roberts v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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