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20 verbatim mandatory provisions from 18-13-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. • NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in me as Chief Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida under Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.215, the Chief Judge orders that all judges, judicial assistants, trial clerks, and attorneys appearing in this Court, as well as Court Administration, shall abide by the following: 1. • The Court’s interpreter services shall only be utilized for individuals appearing before the court. • The Court’s interpreter shall not be used to cover mediations, except for Dependency cases, psychiatric evaluations or any other aspect of the judicial process. -- 1 of 3 -- 2 spoken language interpreter services shall not be provided for persons summoned for jury service. 2. • If the services of an interpreter are needed at a hearing or trial, the attorney must inform the judicial assistant when scheduling the hearing. • Opposing counsel must inform the judicial assistant of the need for interpreter services as soon as counsel is made aware of the need. • Once the need for an interpreter has been determined, the requesting party must contact Court Administration. • If interpreter services are needed, the attorney shall inform court administration no less than five (5) business days in advance of the scheduled date for Spanish interpreters, and all other foreign languages. • Emergency requests and same day requests shall be covered whenever possible, depending upon the availability of resources. 3. • In the event of a conflict concerning the severity of the offense, the chief judge or his designee shall decide which case will be given precedence. • The Court’s interpreters shall not sit in the jury box with a defendant and shall not accompany an attorney into a holding cell to conduct “in-custody” client interviews, except when a unique circumstance occurs which requires the court to proceed to a holding cell to advise a defendant of certain consequences of his actions where a defendant refuses to leave a holding cell. 5. • The Court’s interpreters shall not hold discussions or offer interpretation to defendants unless directed by the court and in the presence of defendant’s counsel. • The Court’s interpreters shall not assist defendants after court, except to receive court minutes, judgments and sentencing paperwork. • If foreign language audio or video recordings are to be used as evidence in a trial or hearing, the party offering the recordings shall have them transcribed and translated into English at his or her own expense, or as provided for indigent criminal defendants, and shall provide in advance a copy of the recordings, foreign language transcripts, and transcripts of the English translation to opposing counsel and the court. • The court interpreter shall not interpret audio or video recordings during court proceedings. 8. • If the need for an interpreter arises during the weekend or holiday, the trial clerk shall utilize the language line service. -- 2 of 3 -- 3 9. • The Court’s interpreter services shall be provided for NES parents or guardians of a minor who are directly involved in a juvenile court proceeding. • Interpreter services shall be provided to any NES individual who is served a summons to appear before the court due to his or her direct involvement in a minor’s juvenile court proceeding. 10. • The Court’s interpreter services shall be provided for domestic, dating, repeat and sexual violence injunction hearings to indigent NES parties. • At the time the case has been set for hearing, the clerk shall provide the parties an affidavit for indigency. • Based upon the affidavit, the clerk shall notify Court Administration if there is an indication that interpreter services may be needed. 11.
NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in me as Chief Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida under Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.215, the Chief Judge orders that all judges, judicial assistants, trial clerks, and attorneys appearing in this Court, as well as Court Administration, shall abide by the following: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 84bc91851a7db0aa80abb6a79a5a8fac0a8a8c062a501b740d9935a4c8338384 (124126 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 Shull requires ALL motions set for special-set hearing to go to mediation before the hearing is held.
Judge Burkhart will not schedule a temporary-relief hearing until mediation has been held ON the temporary relief sought — mediation first, hearing second.
Judge Sharrit refers ALL cases to mediation (exceptions only by leave) and openly encourages Special Magistrates under Rule 1.490(b) to beat the hearing-time bottleneck.