A Notice of Appearance Without a Speedy Waiver Means In-Person… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

A Notice of Appearance Without a Speedy Waiver Means In-Person Arraignment — County Criminal D

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

Summary

Judge Brown (14-item FSC template, the county-criminal exemplar): in-person default under his Standing Order on Remote Appearances; filing an NOA without waiving speedy trial obligates defendant AND counsel to appear at arraignment; his AI paragraph points to statewide Rule 2.515(d) (compliant).

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > County Criminal Division D (Judge Christopher Brown)

Source of truth

"In-Person Hearings: All cases and hearings will be held in-person unless specially requested and approved by the Court pursuant to the Court's Standing Order Regarding Remote Appearances." / "If a Notice of Appearance is filed without a waiver of Speedy Trial, the Defendant and Defense Counsel must appear in-person at the Arraignment hearing." / "All parties or unrepresented Defendants filing documents shall comply with Florida Rule of General practice and Judicial Administration 2.515 (d)."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Brown (County Crim D) 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 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the live page, sha256 6cabfbd1369955d7ec85fb286d40d19b0cce754389ebf88a1a546c660e781fa0; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Brown), 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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