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Defendant Required at Plea Conferences and Case Dispositions #2 — Division C

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division C Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Bonavita requires the defendant's presence at all plea conferences and second case dispositions; jury trials own Tuesdays/Wednesdays at 8:15 a.m.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Criminal Division C (Judge August Bonavita)

Source of truth

"DEFENDANT'S PRESENCE IS REQUIRED for all plea conferences and Case Dispositions #2" / "Tuesdays and Wednesdays are specifically reserved for JURY TRIALS at 8:15 a.m." / "specially set by the Court on Monday, Thursday and Friday afternoons beginning at 1:30 PM"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division C Instructions (Judge Bonavita)
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: Verified against the live official page on 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. | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-c-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 1/3 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 bb7a77255700b8908e46fc4c04022e0d1367e9e3403b4c13fad4672d22c71d8c; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/c/instructions), 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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Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division C Instructions (Judge Bonavita). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division C Instructions (Judge Bonavita). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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