Judge Lauren Sweet: Continuances — St. Lucie County, FL · BenchPath

19th Cir. — Judge Lauren Sweet: Continuances

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time Computation19th Jud. Cir., published procedures of judge Lauren Sweet — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

1 verbatim requirement published by judge Lauren Sweet on continuances.

Applies to

Nineteenth Judicial Circuit (Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, St. Lucie) — judge Lauren Sweet only. Chambers procedures change without notice; the officer's own page controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Docket Call: All defendants are required to be present at docket call unless appearance is waived. Zoom appearance on behalf of counsel and the Defendant is approved on a case by case basis. A written waiver of appearance that complies with Rule 3.180(3) must already be filed in the court file prior to docket call and Zoom appearance approval. If the waiver of appearance is filed within three (3) days of the docket call counsel must come prepared with an already e-filed copy of the waiver to present to the Court. All counsel should make every effort to be ready to resolve a case set for docket call whether through a negotiated plea, open plea to the Court, or announce ready for trial. Only for good cause shown will the Court grant further continuances at docket call. Written motions to continue docket call, with an agreement by the State are the preferred method of continuing a docket ca

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 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Page sha256: 0abb49ead0b4e36f02e36b82e1637d6f0acb9fb4ca5a1e1b001dde2a816e5939. Corpus topic: continuances. Published during the completeness pass — the 2026-07-24 arbitration verified this circuit but published 14 rules against 6,388 verbatim requirements. Verbatim from this officer's published procedures, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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