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6 verbatim mandatory provisions from Escambia County Teen Court.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • Defendants receive a sentence from a jury of their peers, that must be completed within a certain time period. • Defendants must be first time offenders charged with a misdemeanor offense, traffic citation, or school infraction that could result in a misdemeanor charge. • The child must be between the ages of 12 and 18 and their charge occurred in Escambia County, Florida. • Defendants must admit guilt, voluntarily agree to cooperate with the program, and waive their right to a speedy trial. • Referrals to Teen Court are accepted from schools, state attorneys, local law enforcement agencies and judges. - The defendant agrees to participate and signs the agreement and waiver of speedy trial. - Teen Court schedules the defendant for the next available hearing and sends him/her a notice to appear in court. - The defendant meets with his/her teen attorney prior to the hearing to discuss the case and provide pertinent information for his/her defense. - The defendant and parent attend the hearing in which the child will testify (along with any other witnesses) and be sentenced by the peer jury. - An intake meeting is held with the child and parent to go over requirements and deadlines for completion; one requirement being participation as a juror at future Teen Court hearings. - The defendant is given a deadline in which to complete the sentence and submit verification to the coordinator. • Each teen must attend orientation and training, and agree to participate for a full school year.
Defendants receive a sentence from a jury of their peers, that must be completed within a certain time period.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: d1902ecdea15fb34a2421366f10042718a6fe51c4882e9b1dad945cbb4e39d87 (249729 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.