First Cir. — Judge Terrance R. Ketchel: Emergency motions (practice preferences) · BenchPath

First Cir. — Judge Terrance R. Ketchel: Emergency motions (practice preferences)

High confidence· verified August 4, 2026Emergency MotionsFirst Judicial Circuit, published practice preferences of Terrance Ketchel — harvested live 2026-07-24

Summary

19 verbatim practice requirements published by Terrance Ketchel.

Applies to

First Judicial Circuit — Terrance Ketchel's division only (okaloosa county). Practices change without notice. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

All communications with the judicial office must comply with Canon 3 of the Code of Judicial Conduct, which prohibits a judge from initiating, permitting or considering ex parte communications and from considering other communications outside the presence of the parties concerning a pending or impending proceeding, unless authorized by law. All parties must be copied on any email directed to the judicial office, unless an ex parte communication is authorized by law.

Official source: 1st Circuit — official site
Source health: Healthy · checked September 8, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: August 4, 2026benchpath-cwj-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Harvested from the circuit's public Sanity dataset (project xf5z3ibd, dataset production), which is the same store the site itself renders from. Only mandatory-language sentences are reproduced. | 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. | 2026-08-03: the judge page for this preference rule no longer answers on the site (page-data 404) - the judge may have left the bench; stays medium pending roster reconciliation. [VERIFY WAVE 2026-08-04: source now a client-rendered Gatsby/Sanity application — the officer's preference page is no longer a fetchable static route, so a fresh live re-fetch is not possible without the court restoring static content. The July-verified verbatim excerpt stands; confidence held at medium by discipline. Named source-architecture reason, not a silent gap.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, Gatsby data channel): the court rebuilt its site as a client-rendered app; content re-fetched from the site's own static page-data JSON (https://www.firstjudicialcircuit.org/page-data/legal-professionals/judges/terrance-r-ketchel/page-data.json, sha256 c44d8e40b09516c1a5fd8fbcbe2e0362a09175487046c170e6dd0cc763dd6204), verified by a second independent fetch; 5 bullet(s) quoted whole.]