Nineteenth Circuit — AO 2026-08 prescribes required documentation for first appearance hearings (all four counties) · BenchPath

Nineteenth Circuit — AO 2026-08 prescribes required documentation for first appearance hearings (all four counties)

High confidence· verified July 26, 2026Administrative Orders19th Cir. Admin. Order 2026-08, Required First Appearance Documentation (2026)

Summary

Administrative Order 2026-08 (Required First Appearance Documentation), the circuit's newest administrative order as of July 24, 2026, standardizes the documentation that must accompany first-appearance hearings across Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie counties.

Applies to

Criminal first appearances circuit-wide. Read alongside AO 2009-05 (first-appearance hearing schedule), which remains posted as Active.

Requirement

Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • For each defendant scheduled on the First Appearance docket, the Clerk of Court (or designee) and/or the Sheriff (or designee), as applicable based on local practice and document custody, shall provide to: • If no Arrest/Probable Cause Affidavit exists for a particular defendant (including, by way of example, warrant/capias matters where no such affidavit is prepared), the producing agency shall provide the closest functional equivalent document(s) available for First Appearance purposes (e.g., warrant, capias, return, or other probable-cause documentation), in the form maintained for court use. • Any Crime-Victim Identifying Information provided pursuant to this Administrative Order shall be treated as confidential/exempt and shall be used only for purposes reasonably necessary to perform the recipient entity’s duties in connection with the defendant’s First Appearance and the prosecution/defense and related proceedings in that same case, including any lawful pretrial services functions and any appeal. • The Clerk and Sheriff shall continue to provide Arrest/Probable Cause Affidavits to defendants and privately retained counsel in the form otherwise authorized by law, rule, or court order, including any required redactions of confidential or Crime- Victim Identifying Information.

Source of truth

For each defendant scheduled on the First Appearance docket, the Clerk of Court (or designee) and/or the Sheriff (or designee), as applicable based on local practice and document custody, shall provide to:

Official source: 19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 6, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 26, 2026benchpath-reextract-2026-07-26

Reviewer note: | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date. 1 further paragraph(s) were left out because their OCR is too corrupt to quote.

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Change history

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4th Cir. — AO 1986-33A Amended Administrative Order No. 86-33 Compensation for Court Appointed Attorneys in Crimi

2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.

High confidence· verified August 3, 2026Fourth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A, filed 05/12/1988, published on the Duval Clerk's administrative-orders store — sha256-hashed 2026-08-03

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4th Cir. — AO 1987-09 Administrative Order 87-09 Court Reporters - Requests for Transcripts

1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.

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