Motions (Except Limine) Waived If Not Heard Before the PTC… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Motions (Except Limine) Waived If Not Heard Before the PTC — Criminal I

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management13th Jud. Cir., Judge Rice Judicial Practices & Procedures (Crim. I)

Summary

Judge Rice mirrors the F-division waiver with an exception: all motions other than motions in limine must be filed AND heard before the Pretrial Conference or they are waived; limine motions must at least be filed by then.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"All motions (other than motions in limine) shall be filed and heard before the Pretrial Conference. All motions not heard before the Pretrial Conference shall be deemed waived and shall not be grounds for a continuance." / "Out-of-custody Defendants accepting a term of incarceration must appear in person for their plea." / "Division I currently conducts hearings in-person."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Rice (Crim I) 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, fully-anchored): 3 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the live page, sha256 70f43bb8fc829f8c7e3d1d407d69f7e4af4f6b2d067b540c2a117aa9b3f56e82; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]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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