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August A. Bonavita
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 August A. Bonavita across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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County Criminal — Division C
Courtroom 4.2606
On this assignment since June 8, 2026
Main Judicial Complex — 4.2606 / courtroom 4D
Short non-evidentiary matters limited to five (5) minutes; all other matters require special set; materials and remote-appearance motions three business days ahead.
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).
10 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 16 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (March 28, 2019–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.
Fabrina Elie v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 3, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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4 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach Division C on remote appearance policy.
Judge Bonavita grants remote appearance only on a written motion filed with the Clerk and served on all opposing parties at least three business days before the hearing; short motions file with a Notice of Hearing plus a CAD-email courtesy copy.
Ronald William Bingham v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Christian Ramon Cisneros v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Tion Lestian Anderson v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Fabrina Elie v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Manuel Antonio Colon Montaner v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Timothy Hawkins v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Geraldine Veronica Ice v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Tunisia Shavonne McClan v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Nigel K. Campbell v. State of Florida
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MARIE MARTHA BALTAZAR, etc. vs BALTIMORE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and MATHEL W. CUNNINGHAM
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KATTIA RODRIGUEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
NIKITA FELDER-DAVIS vs AZURE ESTATES FL TC, LP
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EBONY KEELS vs AZURE ESTATES FL TC, LP
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EDGAR BETANCOURT VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WILLIE JAMES MCCANTS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Palm Beach County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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