4232-01__2021-02.pdf: published requirements — St. Lucie County, FL · BenchPath

19th Cir. — 4232-01__2021-02.pdf: published requirements

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Meet & Confer19th Jud. Cir., 4232-01__2021-02.pdf (pp. 1, 2, 3) — sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

4 verbatim requirements extracted from 4232-01__2021-02.pdf, across 2 topics.

Applies to

Nineteenth Judicial Circuit (Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, St. Lucie). Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

DISCOVERY DISPUTES • WHEREAS, in order to protect against psychological damage caused by repeated interrogations, Section 914.16, Florida Statutes, requires the chief judge of each judicial circuit to order reasonable limits on the number of interviews victims of enumerated statutes must submit to for law enforcement or discovery purposes. • F. Nothing contained in this order shall prevent the trial court from modifying the number, scope or manner of interviews allowed by this order upon motion of any interested party and a showing of good cause, or from modifying discovery depositions pursuant to the applicable provisions of the rules of Civil, Criminal or Juvenile Procedure. HEARING TIME & ARGUMENT LIMITS • D. Activity generally considered as “deposition, trial or hearing preparation” when the attorney prosecuting the criminal, delinquency or dependency case meets with the victim to advise the victim of the deposition, trial or pre-trial court hearing procedures and informs the victim of questions that will be asked during the deposition or court proceeding. • C. A second interview (“state attorney hearing”) may be conducted by the SAO to clarify and/or expand the factual basis necessary to make a determination as to whether charges or a petition should be filed.

Source of truth

WHEREAS, in order to protect against psychological damage caused by repeated interrogations, Section 914.16, Florida Statutes, requires the chief judge of each judicial circuit to order reasonable limits on the number of interviews victims of enumerated statutes must submit to for law enforcement or discovery purposes.

Official source: 19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: d675273842dc35e8efe1c68450f28299e922fa205b9786a619ea3ce5034bab93. One rule per order rather than per topic, so an order's requirements stay together. Published during the completeness pass. Verbatim from the order, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used anywhere in this chain. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Juvenile Dependency

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