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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from 09-06.
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. • When appearing in any Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, unless excused by the presiding judge, all counsel (including, where the context applies, all persons at counsel table) shall abide by the following: a) Stand as Court is opened, recessed, or adjourned, unless directed to remain seated. b) Stand when the jury enters or retires from the courtroom. c) Stand when addressing, or being addressed by, the Court. d) Counsel shall not suggest to the jury that individual voir dire may be requested without first obtaining permission of the court. e) Stand at the lectern while examining any witness; except that counsel may approach the Clerk's desk or the witness for purposes of handling or tendering exhibits. • Do not participate in, or accommodate any ill feeling between the litigants or witnesses, but remain wholly detached therefrom. i) Refer to all persons, including witnesses, other counsel and the parties by their surnames and not by their first or given names. j) Only one attorney for each party shall examine, or cross examine each witness. • The attorney stating objections, if any, during direct examination, shall be the attorney recognized for cross examination. k) Counsel should request permission before approaching the bench. l) Any paper or exhibit should first be handed to opposing counsel and then to the Clerk to be marked for identification before it is tendered to a witness for his or her examination. • In all criminal proceedings unless excused by the presiding judge, all counsel and defendants shall abide by the following in addition to the requirements of Paragraph 1(a- s) above: a) The prosecuting attorney shall present to the Court at the beginning of each jury trial a full and complete set of jury instructions and verdict forms. • The jury instructions shall include all Category I lesser-included offenses. • Defense counsel shall present to the Court at the beginning of each jury trial, any special instructions and Category II lesser-included offenses that will be requested and proposed verdict forms containing all lesser-included offenses. b) All motions to suppress evidence shall be filed and heard prior to the trial week. • These forms should be fully completed and signed by all parties prior to the plea hearing. f) Any disputes as to "score sheets" for sentencing shall be resolved prior to the sentencing hearing. • Objections to a score sheet should be communicated to the prosecuting attorney prior to the sentencing hearing. 3.
When appearing in any Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, unless excused by the presiding judge, all counsel (including, where the context applies, all persons at counsel table) shall abide by the following: a) Stand as Court is opened, recessed, or adjourned, unless directed to remain seated. b) Stand when the jury enters or retires from the courtroom. c) Stand when addressing, or being addressed by, the Court. d) Counsel shall not suggest to the jury that individual voir dire may be requested without first obtaining permission of the court. e) Stand at the lectern while examining any witness; except that counsel may approach the Clerk's desk or the witness for purposes of handling or tendering exhibits.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 7799d2e8698703ffd64e28b4ff6e3c6e98adbddc5c6b9aefa0f036ab3ee0183e (92472 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.
Judge Sherman requires TWO identical bound hard-copy sets of pre-marked exhibits for evidentiary hearings at least 7 days out — and anything over 50 pages must arrive as bound hard copies by mail.
Judge Hafele: exhibits in chambers three days before any evidentiary proceeding, courtesy copies two days out, all hearing materials three business days ahead, and interpreter requests seven days in advance.
Judge Mullinax wants physical copies of all documents and exhibits for in-person hearings/trials provided five days in advance; orders in Word (no macros/columns/tabs) within 48 hours, final judgments with a 3-inch top-right margin.