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4 verbatim mandatory provisions from 20-20.
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. • CRIMINAL - INITIAL APPEARANCE DETERMINATION OF INDIGENT STATUS, APPOINTMENT OF PUBLIC DEFENDER, OFFICE OF CRIMINAL CONFLICT AND CIVIL REGIONAL COUNSEL, AND PRIVATE CONFLICT COUNSEL _____________________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, pursuant to Article V, section 2(d) of the Florida Constitution and section 43.26, Florida Statutes, the chief judge of each judicial circuit is charged with the authority and the power to do everything necessary to promote the prompt and efficient administration of justice; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Chief Judge’s constitutional and statutory responsibility for administrative supervision of the courts within the circuit and considering available resources, to create and maintain an organization capable of effecting the efficient, prompt, and proper administration of justice for the citizens of this State, the Chief Judge is required to exercise direction, see Fla. • Stat. provides that “[i]f the clerk of court has not made a determination of indigent status at the time a person requests appointment of a public defender, the court shall make a preliminary determination of indigent status, pending further review by the clerk, and may by court order, appoint a public defender, the office of criminal conflict and civil regional counsel, or private counsel on an interim basis.” NOW, THEREFORE, in order to facilitate the efficient operation of the administration of justice, and 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, hereby order that, effective immediately, and to continue until further order: 1. • At initial appearance at the county jails and at detention review hearings in juvenile delinquency cases, the Court shall not require the defendant to execute and file with the -- 1 of 2 -- 2 Clerk of the Court the application form for determination of indigent status prescribed by section 27.52(1) Fla. • Furthermore, the Clerk of Court shall assess the $50 application fee to the Clerk of the Court prescribed by section 27.52(1)(b) Fla.
CRIMINAL - INITIAL APPEARANCE DETERMINATION OF INDIGENT STATUS, APPOINTMENT OF PUBLIC DEFENDER, OFFICE OF CRIMINAL CONFLICT AND CIVIL REGIONAL COUNSEL, AND PRIVATE CONFLICT COUNSEL _____________________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, pursuant to Article V, section 2(d) of the Florida Constitution and section 43.26, Florida Statutes, the chief judge of each judicial circuit is charged with the authority and the power to do everything necessary to promote the prompt and efficient administration of justice; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Chief Judge’s constitutional and statutory responsibility for administrative supervision of the courts within the circuit and considering available resources, to create and maintain an organization capable of effecting the efficient, prompt, and proper administration of justice for the citizens of this State, the Chie
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 7883937458db8f1b90b134b06b46771da17d71eeb0d86ac2980623880567904d (113887 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.