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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from 12-09-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. • Mental Health Court (“MHC”) shall be operational within Seminole County Court Criminal Division as a program for cases involving defendants who are suffering from mental illness or a developmental disability and arrested for misdemeanors or criminal traffic offenses, and certain approved third-degree felonies. • A county Court Judge (“MHC Judge”), appointed by the Chief Judge, shall preside over MHC. • MHC shall be made sua sponte by any court, by Court Services, by the Seminole county Jail Mental Health Specialist (masters level practitioners) at the Seminole County Jail, the state, the defense attorney, law enforcement, mental health providers, or any other interested person. • Prior to the MHC Judge transferring the case to the MHC docket, the defendant -- 1 of 3 -- 2 must enter a written waiver of speedy trial, unless specifically objected to by defense counsel. 2. • 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.
Mental Health Court (“MHC”) shall be operational within Seminole County Court Criminal Division as a program for cases involving defendants who are suffering from mental illness or a developmental disability and arrested for misdemeanors or criminal traffic offenses, and certain approved third-degree felonies.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 3df576d22e5d63cba5ee7866c89aaf40eaac42ae89dd8e228a49f2c72c48a167 (125697 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.