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AI Does Not Change Who Is Responsible: the Signing Attorney Verifies Every Citation — Judge Groger (Pasco)

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Divisional InstructionsHon. Gregory G. Groger, Judicial Practices and Procedures (6th Jud. Cir., Pasco County), last modified Nov. 13, 2025

Summary

Judge Gregory G. Groger's practice requirements address AI without imposing any disclosure or certification duty. They remind attorneys of their existing ethical obligations and place responsibility for verifying every citation on the signing attorney — which is what Rule 2.515(d)(2) already requires. This provision is consistent with the statewide standard, not preempted by it.

Applies to

Applies in Judge Gregory G. Groger's division (CrCrime1), 38053 Live Oak Avenue, Suite 111, Dade City, Pasco County, Sixth Judicial Circuit. Document last modified November 13, 2025.

Source of truth

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Official source: 6th Circuit — Judge Gregory G. Groger Practice Preferences
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
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Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-6th-verbatim-2026-08-02

Reviewer note: PROVENANCE CORRECTED 2026-07-24. This rule was published at high confidence with no review note, but the research corpus it came from records evidence_level = STRUCTURED_TRANSCRIPTION_FROM_REVIEWED_SOURCE and verbatim = NO for 98 of its 101 requirement rows. The text here is a faithful transcription of a reviewed source, NOT a verbatim quotation, and BenchPath's standard reserves high confidence for live-fetch verification of the official source. Lowered to medium pending a verbatim re-capture. The cited source URL is live and was re-fetched 2026-07-24; only 3 of the corpus's 101 requirements were captured verbatim. | Elevated medium->high 2026-08-02: the paraphrase was replaced with 12 verbatim requirement(s) taken live from the source (sha256 401fbf72f4ad4f21…). Verbatim from the source, re-verified 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Criminal Traffic Criminal — Felony DUI / BUI Criminal — Misdemeanor Bond & Pretrial Release Domestic Violence Battery Traffic (Civil Infractions)Post-Conviction (Rule 3.850)Sealing & Expunction Violation of Probation

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