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17 verbatim requirements from document (unlisted) [unlisted] COVID-19 Best Practices.
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/COVID-19%20Best%20Practices.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Judges and/or court staff must act as hosts to control remote meetings. • Just like in an actual courtroom, you must pay attention to make sure you don’t miss something important that is said or something the judge asks you to do. -- 5 of 21 -- • Consider advising parties that documents or other items that the presiding judge must review during the hearing, but which are not being submitted as evidence, e.g., a driver’s license to verify identity, do not have to be provided to the judge in advance and may be presented to the judge during the hearing using the camera. • Advising witnesses at the beginning of the hearing or before their testimony of the following protocol for their testimony: they must be alone in a quiet room during their 2 Under AOSC 20-23, Amendment 1, in-person hearings may be conducted only for essential proceedings. • Additionally, under the AO, non-essential proceedings must be conducted remotely unless one of the two exceptions discussed in Footnote 4, below, apply. 3 For a discussion of the strong presumption of openness for all court proceedings and of confidentiality requirements applicable in the judicial branch, see the Government-In-The-Sunshine-Manual, 2020 Edition, by the • Workgroup on the Continuity of Court Operations and Proceedings During and After COVID-19 P a g e | 4 testimony, may not use a virtual background, and are ordered, subject to contempt of court, to turn off all electronic devices except for the device enabling participation in the hearing and to refrain from exchanging any electronic messages during their testimony. • To enable this function, the presiding judge or clerk must host the Zoom hearing. • This functionality is critical in the event that a witness must remain in a waiting room because he or she is sequestered. • Civil and Family Essential Proceedings - must be conducted remotely or in-person • Civil and Family Non-Essential Proceedings – must be conducted remotely • Court administrative staff in each circuit must maintain an up-to-date list of statewide contacts for judges, state attorneys (SA), public defenders (PD), the Office of Criminal • Except when charges are also pending in the host county, if an inmate remains incarcerated in a host county ten (10) days following a first appearance hearing, the judge and state attorney in the host county must re-contact their counterparts in the issuing county to verify if the state continues to desire extradition and whether the current monetary bond or other conditions of pretrial release should be modified. • You may not use this form for violations of probation or violations of community control. • Do not fill out the “Response to Request to Transfer a New Case.” (5) If the State Attorney’s Office agrees to the transfer, the “Home Court” Clerk of the Court will transmit the necessary documents to transfer your case to the “Holding Court” Clerk of the Court, and you will be called before this Court to address the pending charges. • If the instant case is transferred to the __________ Judicial Circuit for resolution and Defendant chooses to enter a plea of not guilty, Defendant understands that the instant case will be returned to the court in which the prosecution was commenced, and the proceeding shall be restored to the docket of that court. • Case,” and I agree / do not agree to the transfer of the instant case for resolution in the _______________ Judicial Circuit in and for County. • You may not use this form to address new charges; rather, you should use the packet titled “Request to Transfer New Case.”
Judges and/or court staff must act as hosts to control remote meetings.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 38f07d26760a9a5f2c0b3ac32805ba9e8912baf912d0f06910dd0faec8da8eb6. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.