Respond to Offered Dates in 3 Business Days or Lose Them… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Respond to Offered Dates in 3 Business Days or Lose Them — Criminal I

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

Summary

Judge Rice releases offered hearing dates to other parties if the JA gets no response within three business days — and layers deadlines: authority 3 business days, evidence for review 2 business days, Zoom exhibits 48 hours.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Circuit Criminal Division I (Judge Elizabeth G. Rice)

Source of truth

"If the Judicial Assistant fails to receive an email response within three business days ... the dates and times provided in the email will become immediately available to other parties" / "case law and authority must be received by the Court no less than three business days before the hearing" / "it must be received by the Court no less than two business days before the hearing."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Rice (Crim I) Judicial Practices & Procedures
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 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the live page, sha256 70f43bb8fc829f8c7e3d1d407d69f7e4af4f6b2d067b540c2a117aa9b3f56e82; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Rice), 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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