Judge Melinda Brown: Judge preferences — Broward County, FL

Source of truth

Any attorney or pro se party who used Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in the preparation of the complaint, answer, motion, brief, or other paper filed with the court MUST disclose in a clear and plain factual statement that AI was used. The party MUST CERTIFY that every citation to any case, statute, rule or the record in the filed document or exhibit is accurate and has been verified by the attorney or unrepresented party. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in the striking of the filed document or exhibit and other sanctions.

Official source: 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: 46bfe0c725a0b4f32c396818f7bb2954a4742dfa8018091518f98581e0a1af33. Corpus categories: AI_LANGUAGE, SPECIAL_SET, COURTESY_COPIES, PROPOSED_ORDERS. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Criminal Traffic Criminal — Felony DUI / BUI Criminal — Misdemeanor Bond & Pretrial Release Domestic Violence Battery Traffic (Civil Infractions)Post-Conviction (Rule 3.850)Sealing & Expunction Violation of Probation

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Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Melinda Brown: Judge preferences

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