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33 verbatim mandatory provisions from 05-02-s.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
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. • Duty of Judges to act as Magistrates All Seminole County Circuit Judges and County Court Judges shall perform the duties of magistrates and shall consider and issue, when appropriate, during regular business hours, upon request by a duly authorized agency or organization, arrest warrants, search warrants and other process. • County Court Judges shall perform these duties in felony cases as well as misdemeanor cases. 2. • Applications for search warrants and other process Law enforcement officers requesting these services during the regular work week shall call the main office of Court Administration to arrange an appointment at 407-665-4200. • County Court Judges shall preside over first appearance hearings during the regular work week in both felony and misdemeanor cases. • A judge who has issued an arrest warrant in a particular case may designate himself or herself as the first appearance -- 1 of 6 -- 2 judge and shall preside over the first appearance within the time limits provided by the rules of criminal procedure. • Otherwise, the first appearance shall be conducted by the first appearance judge. • First appearance judges shall comply with the rules of criminal procedure and shall entertain motions to set or reduce bond in cases where a defendant is entitled to bond as a matter of right from time of arrest until the case is heard on the first arraignment docket. • Thereafter, bond motions shall be scheduled before the judge assigned to the case. • Bond motions in violation of probation or community control cases shall be scheduled before the judge who is permanently assigned to the case unless that judge defers hearing the motion to the first appearance judge or the Chief Judge designates another judge to hear the motion. • Persons taken into custody on out of county warrants shall be scheduled for review on the third business day after first appearance. • After first appearance, unless there is an emergency, bonds shall not be increased in felony cases without a written motion made by the State Attorney and duly noticed for hearing. • The State Attorney shall make arrangements with the clerk of the court to obtain arrest reports on the first business day following the date of arrest. • The arrest report contains the date of arrest and shall constitute notice pursuant to Rule 3.134. • Persons held in custody for thirty three days after the date of arrest shall, upon motion made by the defense, be placed on the first appearance docket and be released -- 2 of 6 -- 3 from custody unless the State Attorney files a charge in the case before first appearance. • The following categories of arrested persons shall not be brought to first appearance: 1. • The Seminole County Bond Schedule allows defendants to post bond prior to first appearance and is not a schedule that is presumptively reasonable in individual cases. • First appearance judges shall comply with Rule 3.131 and shall presume the defendant is entitled to release unless the offense is not bondable or if the defendant is in custody for violation of probation or community control. • With these exceptions, the first appearance judge shall consider release conditions in the following order: • Execution of an unsecured (cash) appearance bond, provided that the defendant shall have the option to post a surety bond. • If the unsecured bond is less than $500.00 the defendant shall be given the option of posting a $500.00 surety bond. • In considering these restrictions the first appearance judge shall consider (1) whether or not the named victim(s) in the case are in danger or have been provided adequate protection, (2) whether the defendant is truly an immediate danger to the community; • The first appearance judge shall consider all available relevant factors to determine what form of release is necessary to assure the defendant's appearance. • All information provided by a defendant in connection with any application for or attempt to secure bail, to any court, court personnel, or individual soliciting or recording such information for the purpose of evaluating eligibility for or securing bail for the -- 4 of 6 -- 5 defendant, under circumstances such that the defendant knew or should have known that the information was to be used in connection with an application for bail, shall be accurate, truthful, and complete, without omissions, to the best knowledge of the defendant. • However, no defendant shall be compelled to provide information regarding his or her criminal record. • Polk Correctional Facility who does not have a lawyer shall be presumed to be indigent and the Public Defender shall be appointed to represent that prisoner unless the prisoner indicates that private counsel shall be retained immediately. • In that event, a counsel review hearing shall be scheduled before the thirty-third day after arrest unless the prisoner is released from custody before that time. • The Public Defender shall be appointed to represent any prisoner who does not have private counsel for the purpose of Rule 3.134 motions. 6. • Rule 3.134 Motions (Failure of State to file charges within 33 days.) This section is for the purpose of establishing procedures to implement the provisions of Rule 3.134 in Seminole County. • The Clerk of the Court shall provide the assistant state attorney attending first appearance hearings with a copy of the first appearance docket. • Receipt of the docket shall be notice from the court that the defendant is in custody and the date of the first appearance. • No further notice shall be required for the defendant or defense counsel to make a motion for release under the provisions of Rule 3.134. • At the hearing on the Rule 3.134 motion, the presiding -- 5 of 6 -- 6 judge shall presume the defendant is entitled to release from custody unless (1) an information or indictment is filed in the court file or (2) the assistant state attorney attending first appearance presents the original information or indictment or a copy of it with the clerk’s filing stamp on it to the presiding judge. • Defendants released under the provisions of Rule 3.134 shall be released on their recognizance without further conditions except to appear and answer to the charges.
Duty of Judges to act as Magistrates All Seminole County Circuit Judges and County Court Judges shall perform the duties of magistrates and shall consider and issue, when appropriate, during regular business hours, upon request by a duly authorized agency or organization, arrest warrants, search warrants and other process.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 3a90df35cbd7e454bd9b7eef1610aa858d8114a0e0ca34a481ebff861809b53e (99766 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.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.