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9 verbatim requirements from Eleventh Circuit administrative order 08-03.
Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the operative section of Eleventh Circuit administrative order 08-03, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. • The principal criterion in determining the Court location to which a case is to be assigned shall be the arresting officer’s geographical jurisdiction and/or officers’ Court District code. Within each court location, cases shall be randomly assigned by the Clerk of Court pursuant to the currently utilized blind filing system. • In order for the Clerk to properly assign cases as set forth in the Order, the State Attorney shall clearly indicate on the charging instrument the name of the arresting or investigating officer and his/her department. In the event that the State Attorney does not indicate an arresting or investigating officer, the Clerk of the Court shall assign the case to the Central location. • In cases where a defendant is charged with combined misdemeanor and criminal traffic charges arising from the same incident, the misdemeanor charge shall be assigned to the Blind File Section of the traffic charge. • In cases filed against an individual defendant having other matters pending in the same Court location, such cases shall be assigned to the Section within that Court location wherein such previously filed case bearing the lowest case number is pending unless the defendant has been charged with combined misdemeanor and criminal traffic charges, at which time Blind File rule #5 shall apply. - 6 - • Where multiple defendants are charged in a case filed in the same Court location in which any defendant has a previously filed case, such case shall be assigned to that section within the same Court location in which that defendant has pending a previously filed case; and, should more than one of such defendants have pending a previously filed case in the same Court location as the subject case, the Section of the Court location wherein the lowest numbered case is pending shall be the Section of the Court location to which the entire case shall be assigned. If any of the multiple defendants have been charged with combined misdemeanor and criminal traffic charges, the entire case shall be assigned to the Blind File Section of the traffic charge. If more than one of such defendants has combined misdemeanor and criminal traffic charges, the entire case shall be assigned to the Blind File Section of the lowest numbered traffic case. • It shall be the duty and joint responsibility of the Clerk of the Court, the State Attorney and defense attorneys to inform the Court of the pendency of any previously filed case which would affect proper assignment of every case filed thereafter. • If the pendency of a previously filed case is not brought to the attention of the Court until the newer case is so close to the trial date that a transfer would cause a continuance, the newer case will remain in the Blind Filed Section, unless the transfer is approved by the Judge of the Section to which the transfer of such case is proposed. • Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrative Judge may: (a) Alter the filing system temporarily to provide for a different distribution of cases for a lengthy absence of a Judge for any reason; (b) Alter the distribution upon good cause, such as emergencies; and (c) Alter the share of cases assigned to any Judge having additional duties other than casework such as the Administrative Judge. • Upon the disqualification or recusal of the presiding Judge in any case within the Criminal Division of the County Court, the reassignment of such cases shall be made by the Clerk of the Court under a blind filing system historically utilized in making the initial assignment, or any similar method that will result in such cases being filed equally among the various Sections of the Court in an unpredictable manner.
The principal criterion in determining the Court location to which a case is to be assigned shall be the arresting officer’s geographical jurisdiction and/or officers’ Court District code. Within each court location, cases shall be randomly assigned by the Clerk of Court pursuant to the currently utilized blind filing system.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 6dcda28bece392765aeeac6ef9902c8b4d1e6930bf6479d4040b59a1cdd7d804. Read from the order's ORDERED section as numbered paragraphs. 1 paragraph(s) withheld as too scan-damaged to quote.
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