Judge Susan St. John — Practice Preferences (Pinellas Circuit…

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• Unless properly waived pursuant to Rule 3.180, defendants shall be present at all pretrial

Official source: 6th Circuit — Judge Susan St. John 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 a765c4cc9a2050e0…). 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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Judge Susan St. John — Practice Preferences (Pinellas Circuit Criminal, Section K)

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