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6 verbatim mandatory provisions from 24-08-b.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• Diversionary Mental Health Court shall be operational withing the Brevard County Court Criminal Division to hear cases involving defendant’s who are suffering from mental illness or a developmental disability arrested for misdemeanors, criminal traffic offenses, and/or third degree felonies, with the exception of those charged with domestic violence, driving under the influence, and sexual offenses. • Referrals for third degree felony cases shall be made contemporaneously with Early Resolution Program. • Diversionary Mental Health Court is not a substance abuse treatment court as such possession charges will not be admitted said program nor will a defendant whose primary diagnosis is substance abuse as that issue must be addressed prior to mental health intervention. 4. • Upon defendant’s diagnosis of a current Axis I mental illness or developmental disability by a mental health expert, after approval of the parties set forth above and the Mental Health Court Judge’s determination that the defendant is mentally ill, the Mental Health Court Judge shall enter an order transferring the case to Diversionary Mental Health Court and direct the Clerk to place the case or cases, including any qualifying traffic criminal cases involving the accepted defendant, on the Diversionary Mental Health Court docket. 7. • In the event the defendant fails, for any reason, to successfully participate and complete the Diversionary Mental Health Court program, the case shall be transferred back to the original criminal division. 8. • Defendants who are accepted for participation in the Diversionary Mental Health Court, and who voluntarily agree to participate in the Diversionary Mental Health Court, shall, at the discretion of the State Attorney, enter into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, unless charged with a violation of county probation.
Diversionary Mental Health Court shall be operational withing the Brevard County Court Criminal Division to hear cases involving defendant’s who are suffering from mental illness or a developmental disability arrested for misdemeanors, criminal traffic offenses, -- 1 of 3 -- 2 and/or third degree felonies, with the exception of those charged with domestic violence, driving under the influence, and sexual offenses.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 1a4e38af84feb4533ecd48cb9f22a2d9411a0d71800b2f487d97e1363580245a (56228 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. | Scope corrected 2026-08-03: the 18th numbers county-specific orders with -b (Brevard) and -s (Seminole); unsuffixed orders are circuit-wide. This rule was bulk-tagged to one county at harvest; the court's own numbering convention now controls. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. 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. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.