Judge Frederick P. Mercurio: Judge preferences — Manatee County, FL · BenchPath

Twelfth Cir. — Judge Frederick P. Mercurio: Judge preferences

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 24, 2026Judge PreferencesTwelfth Judicial Circuit — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

2 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

Twelfth Judicial Circuit — Judge Frederick P. Mercurio only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Hearings are in person; remote communication technology for non-evidentiary matters of 30 minutes or less requires written motion and order.

Official source: 12th Circuit — Judge & JA telephone roster (print view)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 24, 2026benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: . Corpus categories: Appearance, Scheduling. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: NORMALIZED_FROM_OBSERVED_PAGE_NOT_VERBATIM. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. | 2026-09-02 audit Phase 7: source_url re-pointed from the retired https://jud12.flcourts.org/Judge-Frederick-Mercurio (HTTP 404) to the page's current address; custody captured. Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 12th Circuit — Judge & JA telephone roster (print view). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 12th Circuit — Judge & JA telephone roster (print view). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 12th Circuit — Judge & JA telephone roster (print view). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 12th Circuit — Judge & JA telephone roster (print view). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 12th Circuit — Judge & JA telephone roster (print view). Review before republishing dependent rules.