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27 verbatim mandatory provisions from 24-45.
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. • Every person summoned for jury duty shall serve either one day or one trial. • The jury summons shall specify in bold print the specific date, day of the week, and time for a juror to report for jury service. • The jury summons shall also notify the juror that he/she must telephone the Brevard or Seminole County Clerk of the Court the day prior to the day the juror is to report to determine if the juror should report for jury duty the following day. 2. • There shall be juror summons sent to Brevard County residents for every business day that the courthouses are open for judicial proceedings in the following manner, unless the need is reduced based on judge’s trials settling early. 300 jurors shall be summoned for Monday of each week; 300 jurors shall be summoned for Tuesday of each week; 150 jurors shall be summoned for Wednesday of each week; 150 jurors shall be summoned for Thursday of each week; and Seminole County Jurors shall be drawn on Mondays only. • Judges may request additional days for jurors to be summoned upon approval of the Chief Judge or Deputy Chief Judge. -- 1 of 5 -- Page 2 of 5 There shall be no jury trials scheduled during the week between Christmas and New Year’s; however, 50 jurors shall be summoned for the second business day after the Christmas holiday. • Therefore, only judges who have a speedy trial issue during this period shall have 50 jurors available for a jury trial which shall begin on the second business day after the Christmas holiday. • Jury clerks shall be notified by 2:30 P.M. on the last business day before the Christmas holiday that a judge has a speedy trial issue. • The jury clerks shall be notified as to the number of jurors needed for the speedy trial case which will commence on the second business day after the Christmas holiday. 3. • The Duty Judge shall qualify jurors by administering questions contained in the attached list (Appendix A) and determining qualification based upon the responses of each prospective juror according to sections 40.01 and 40.013, Florida Statutes. • The Duty Judge shall qualify the jurors each morning in the Jury Assembly Room. • Brevard and Seminole Juror Qualifications shall be held no later than 8:30 am each day. • The jury management staff shall be authorized to grant exemptions as set forth in Appendix B. • All juror hardships shall be addressed with the Judge in the Jury Assembly Room. • All hardships shall be considered immediately after the Oath and Qualifications are read. 5. • The jury panels shall be released to judges on a first-come, first-serve basis, except upon intervention by the Chief Judge, or the Chief Judge’s designee on a case-by-case basis. • However, judges who are requesting jury panels on a given day for criminal cases in which the speedy trial period expires on that day shall be provided with jury panels first. • Each judge’s judicial assistant shall notify the jury clerks by 2:30 P.M. the day before that the judge needs jurors and the number of jurors needed. • Judicial assistants shall notify the jury clerks by 2:30 P.M. on Friday for Monday jury trials. • If a judge knows he/she is going to have a case of notoriety and a large number of jurors will be needed, then the judge’s judicial assistant shall inform the jury clerks of this fact at least 6 weeks in advance of trial. • If a judge is bringing in a senior judge to aid the judge with the Judge’s jury trials, then the Judge’s judicial assistant shall notify the jury clerks as soon as possible. • All Senior Judges requests must be approved by the Chief Judge. -- 2 of 5 -- Page 3 of 5 7. • All jurors summoned to a courthouse who have not been sent to a courtroom by 11:00 A.M. shall be released. • No person who is under prosecution for any crime, or who has been convicted in this state, any federal court, or any other state, territory, or country of bribery, forgery, perjury, larceny, or any other offense that is a felony in this state or which if it had been committed in this state would be a felony, unless restored to civil rights, shall be qualified to serve as a juror. 2 (a) Neither the Governor, nor Lieutenant Governor, nor any Cabinet officer, nor clerk of court, or judge shall be qualified to be a juror. 2 (b) Any full-time federal, state, or local law enforcement officer or such entities' investigative personnel shall be excused from jury service unless such persons choose to serve. 3. • No person interested in any issue to be tried therein shall be a juror in any cause; but no person shall be disqualified from sitting in the trial of any suit in which the state or any county or municipal corporation is a party by reason of the fact that such person is a resident or taxpayer within the state of such county or municipal corporation. 4. • Any expectant mother and any parent who is not employed full time and who has custody of a child under 6 years of age, upon request, shall be excused from jury service. 5. • A person 70 years of age or older shall be excused from jury service upon request. 7. • Any person who is responsible for the care of a person who, because of mental illness, mental retardation, senility, or other physical or mental incapacity, is incapable of caring for himself/herself shall be excused from jury service upon request. -- 5 of 5 --
Every person summoned for jury duty shall serve either one day or one trial.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f8b7676de5d941d644f9cf40236ad36339001d8f836f723b6c3d0c0a446ec1b1 (125424 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.
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