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6 verbatim requirements from 2001-19.6 Procedural Requirements for Pro-Se Civil Infraction Traffic Court Appeals 6.
Twelfth Judicial Circuit (Manatee, Sarasota, DeSoto). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• If Appellant is challenging matters which transpired at the Traffic Court hearing, Appellant must provide a record of the hearing for the Circuit Court to review. Assuming Appellant did not secure the services of a court reporter for the Traffic Court hearing, Appellant must consult Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200(b)(4} for direction in preparing a record. • Under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200(b)(4), Appellant must prepare a statement of the evidence or proceedings from the Traffic Court hearing. This statement must be sworn if Appellant is relying on his/her recollection for preparation of the statement. Execution of the following unnotarized oath will be deemed sufficient to satisfy this requirement: Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have read the foregoing statement and that the facts stated in it are true. (Appellant's signature) '• • Appellant shall file his/her proposed statement of the evidence on the law enforcement officer issuing the citation, who may serve objections or proposed amendments to it within ten (10) days of service. There after, the statement and any objections and proposed amendments shall be submitted to the lower tribunal for settlement and approval. As settled and approved, the statement shall be included by the clerk of the lower tribunal in the record. • if approval of a final statement of the Traffic Court proceedings, .. and evidence is feasible, the lower tribunal shall enter an order to that effect within a reasonable time, and attach to the order the final statement of the evidence or proceedings, as settled and approved. The Clerk of Court shall serve copies of the lower tribunal's order and the final statement of the evidence or proceedings on Appellant. The Clerk shall then commence formal preparation of the appellate record in accordance with Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200d). The final · statement of the evidence or proceedings approved by the lower tribunal shall be included in the appellate record. • Within twenty (20) days of the date of service of the final statement of the evidence or proceedings by the Clerk, Appellant shall file an Initial Brief. The Initial Brief shall be submitted substantially in compliance with Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.210(b) and shall contain a statement of the facts, the course of the proceedings, and the disposition in the Traffic Court. The Brief must then set forth each issue · presented for review and any corresponding argument. Appellant shall file the original Initial Brief with the Clerk of Court. • Should Appellant fail to comply with any aspect of this Notice in a timely fashion, the appeal shall be subject to dismissal.
If Appellant is challenging matters which transpired at the Traffic Court hearing, Appellant must provide a record of fhe hearing for the Circuit Court to review. Assuming Appellant did not secure the se~ces of a court reporter for the Traffic Court hearing, Appellant must consult Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.200(b)(4} for direction in preparing a record.
Reviewer note: PDF sha256: 5635d162b123bdd08df9e0d072e6647615dd1f3b7b8ed1d8e8c541410917745d. Read from the ORDERED section as numbered paragraphs. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3c): text-layer artifacts corrected (escape leaks, dropped spaces, single-token OCR mis-reads); wording unchanged. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3i): read against the official print through the vision lane, or restored from unambiguous scanning mis-reads of the text layer; wording unchanged. Verbatim from the operative section of https://www.jud12.flcourts.org/Portals/0/AdminOrders/Section06/01-19-6.pdf, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.