Motions Not Heard Before the Pretrial Conference Are WAIVED… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Motions Not Heard Before the Pretrial Conference Are WAIVED — Criminal F

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time Computation13th Jud. Cir., Judge Alvarez Judicial Practices & Procedures (Crim. F)

Summary

Judge Alvarez deems all motions not heard before the Pre-Trial Conference waived — and no grounds for continuance; substitutions of counsel must be filed AND heard 7 days before PTC, and continuances are not considered at PTC absent unforeseen circumstances.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Circuit Criminal Division F (Judge Lindsay M. Alvarez)

Source of truth

"All motions shall be filed and heard prior to the Pre-Trial Conference. All motions not heard prior to the Pre-Trial Conference shall be deemed waived and shall not be grounds for a continuance." / "A MOTION FOR SUBSTITUTION OF COUNSEL MUST BE FILED AND HEARD AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE THE PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE" / "The non-moving party shall file a written response to all contested motions at least seven days before the hearing."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Alvarez (Crim F) Judicial Practices & Procedures
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Cross-model verified (accordion + PDF veins) 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 ca8080d4400404fffd47641edb4858aba288aef6b209e7eaa053ce4362f6c02f; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Alvarez), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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