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Plea Doors Close at Calendar Call — Never on Trial Day — Division E

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

Summary

Judge Tew: no negotiated plea after calendar call absent very good cause, none on trial day absent extraordinary circumstances — and the Court neither modifies negotiated terms nor holds pre-plea inquiries.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Criminal Division E (Judge Stephanie F. Tew)

Source of truth

"The Court will not accept a negotiated plea after calendar call absent a showing of very good cause" / "The Court WILL NOT accept a negotiated plea on the day of trial absent a showing of extraordinary circumstances" / "The Court does not participate in plea negotiations or 'pre-plea inquiries'"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division E Instructions (Judge Tew)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-e-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 a05fbdf702d7dee26c046232f73001e4ae4a971896f9e001923273890554dc42); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 b9f715516a8a7e402080b8373dd76a4013f5b43c8ff90e492bad285dcf7adc9c; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/e/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 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division E Instructions (Judge Tew). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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