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4 verbatim requirements extracted from judge-robert-meadows__WEBSITE-PROCEDURES-FELONY-SLC-Amended.pdf, across 2 topics.
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.
Verbatim from the order, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used anywhere in this chain. HEARING TIME & ARGUMENT LIMITS • ❖ SCHEDULING HEARINGS Scheduling will be done by me not via the online calendar. When you need to schedule a hearing you should first contact opposing party to determine how much time will be required by ALL parties. Once this information is obtained you should email me, copying in opposing party, (actual email address please not service address see below example), to request the hearing indicating how much time is required. If it is a motion hearing the motion must be filed prior to request and a copy should be emailed to me when requesting. If the hearing is for a COP you should indicate if the plea is open or negotiated and again how much time is required. The plea form, signed by the defendant and defense attorney, must be received via my e -mail by noon the business day before the hearing date and if applicable it should be accompanied by jail’s time served paperwork. Original plea forms and/or proposed orders should be brought to Court the day of the hearing. • ➢ The signed plea form must be e -mailed to the Judicial Assistant no later than NOON the business day before the hearing. IF time served is a condition of the plea the Credit for Time Served Report from the Jail MUST be submitted with the plea form PRIOR TO THE HEARING NO EXECUTED PLEA FORM NO TRANSPORT Plea forms MUST be legible, in other words TYPED. They should list the level and degree of the crime. The plea form should indicate what the defendant is ACTUALLY charged with and then what they are pleading to. AGAIN, INCLUDING the Level and Degree. The Defense MUST bring the original plea to Court (plea date and/or sentencing) ADVANCED NOTICE must be given to the Clerk of any pleas being heard/done at Docket Call. Plea hearings will be IN PERSON ONLY no plea will be taken via computer/phone. ❖ Proposed orders regarding Early Termination; Bond Modifications, Pre-Trial Release and the like MUST be brought to Court. • ❖ Amended Info / Capias MUST be supplied to the Clerk by NOON the business day before the hearing. ➢ AMENDED INFORMATION: NO filing Amended Information issuing a Capias in open court the day of or the portal the day before a COP so the defendant can plea out to a charge he has not been yet booked. It ties up 3 clerks (the 2 in court and 1 in office that has to stop everything to rush add a capias) and it takes up the courts time as well. No defendant should be allowed to turn himself in on a capias that hasn't been issued but already plead. They should be taken into custody and taken back to jail and then allowed to bond or ROR. CONTINUANCES • ❖ UNOPPOSED Continuance must be e-mailed to the Judicial Assistant no later than noon the Wednesday prior to Docket Call Week, i.e.
❖ UNOPPOSED Continuance must be e-mailed to the Judicial Assistant no later than noon the Wednesday prior to Docket Call Week, i.e.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 296804ce6fc894b458f5a631017e97fca5afc4766a6a278e9df86c7107a83586. One rule per order rather than per topic, so an order's requirements stay together. Published during the completeness pass. | Title normalised 2026-07-26 for readability; the court's own asset name was "19th Cir. — judge-robert-meadows__WEBSITE-PROCEDURES-FELONY-SLC-Amended.pdf: published requirements". Only the display title changed — the requirement text, source URL and hash are untouched.
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