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5 verbatim mandatory provisions from 02-36-b.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• Mental Health Court shall be operational within the Brevard County Court Criminal Division to hear cases involving defendants who are suffering from mental illness or a developmental disability and arrested for misdemeanors or criminal traffic offenses, with the exception of those charged with domestic violence, driving under the influence, and sexual offenses. • Upon defendant’s diagnosis of a current Axis I mental illness or developmental disability by a mental health expert, and the assigned judge’s determination that the defendant is mentally ill or developmentally disabled and after approval of the parties set forth above, the Mental Health Court Judge shall enter an order transferring the case to Mental Health Court and directing the Clerk to place the case or cases, including any traffic criminal cases involving the accepted defendant, on the Misdemeanor Mental Health Court docket. 4. • Prior to the Mental Health Court Judge transferring the case to the Mental Health Court docket, the defendant must enter a written waiver of speedy trial. 5. • The case shall be transferred back to the original criminal division if a defendant fails, for any reason, to successfully participate and complete the Mental Health Court program and the defendant’s right to a speedy trial may be reinstated upon a written demand. 6. • Defendants who are accepted for participation in the Mental Health Court, and who voluntarily agree to participate in the Mental Health Court, shall, at the discretion of the State Attorney, enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, unless charged with a violation of county probation.
Mental Health Court shall be operational within the Brevard -- 1 of 3 -- 2 County Court Criminal Division to hear cases involving defendants who are suffering from mental illness or a developmental disability and arrested for misdemeanors or criminal traffic offenses, with the exception of those charged with domestic violence, driving under the influence, and sexual offenses.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: b6bdf9d7b2e5cbaf5c8e203ac51649ca10a1057a65df23ce7b5f88aec15cde8d (110091 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it. | Scope corrected 2026-08-03: the 18th numbers county-specific orders with -b (Brevard) and -s (Seminole); unsuffixed orders are circuit-wide. This rule was bulk-tagged to one county at harvest; the court's own numbering convention now controls. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
4 verbatim requirements on hearings.
2 verbatim requirements on hearing time in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.