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18 verbatim requirements from admin. order AO 24.4 - Local Rule IV - Selections of Jurors by Computer in Lee County (Superceded by Fla. Supreme Court Administrative Order AOSC07-38) [Local Rules].
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/ao/lr4.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Section 40.225, Florida Statutes, provides for the selection of jurors to serve within the county by "mechanical, electronic, or electrical device." Pursuant to that section, a majority of judges within the circuit in which the county resides must approve, and the chief judge of the circuit must submit, a description of the method for selecting jurors to the Supreme Court of Florida. • WHEREAS, in accordance with Florida Statute § 40.011, the source of selection is also from the list of those whose names do not appear on the Department database, but who have filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court an affidavit prescribed in the cited statute, it is therefore, • RESOLVED that the Rules of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit for procedure in all courts of Lee County in which jury trials are held shall be amended to include this additional Rule adopting the following alternative plan for the selection of persons for grand or petit jury service; • The source from which names shall be taken is the same as that which is described above in accordance with Florida Statute § 40.011. • On a quarterly basis, the Lee County Clerk of the Circuit Court shall obtain a computerized listing of names from the Department of -- 3 of 43 -- • The Clerk of Circuit Court of Lee County is designated the official custodian of the computer records of the lists to be used in jury selection and shall ensure they are not accessible to anyone other than those directly involved in selection of venires, as herein provided. • The Clerk of the Circuit Court shall cause jury venires to be selected from the final jury list programmed into the Lee County computer using the method described in Attachment "A" (Method of Jury Selection For Lee County), Attachment "B" (Jury Selection Algorithm For • Attachments "A", "B", and "C" shall be incorporated into this Local Rule as if fully set forth herein. 2 -- 4 of 43 -- • The Clerk of the Circuit Court shall purge the final jury selection list of those persons statutorily excluded from juror service as specified in F.S. 40.013 and 40.022. • Additionally, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall, at least once a month, purge the jury selection lists of names of those persons: • Every file processed must be in the JURY+© standard format (see attached document entitled CDF-Candidate Data File) so that the software understands where, within a record, the various data fields are located. • They may not be revealed or released to any party without the express written consent of Jury Systems Incorporated. • It passes ALL of the tests for random number generators and has a period of 2144 and is completely portable (gives bit identical results on all machines with at least 24-bit mantissas in the floating point representation). • It passes ALL of the tests for random number generators and has a period of 2Al44, is completely portable (gives bit identical results on all machines with at least 24--bit mantissas in the floating point representation) , • The first random number seed must have a " "value between 0 and 31328\nu); printf (" The second random number seed must have a 11 "value between 0 and 30081"); return l; i (int)fmod(ij/177.0, 177.0) t 2; j (int)fmod((double)ij, 177.0) + 2; k (int)fmod(kl/169.0, 178.0) + l; 1 (int)fmod((double)kl, 169.0); for ii=O; ii<=96; ii++ ( s = (float)O.O; t = (float)0.5; for ( jj=O; jj<=23; jj++ ) { ) u[ii] m (intlfmod( frnodi(double)i*j,179,0)*k, 179.0 ); i j; j k; k m; 1 (int)frnod( 53.0*l+l.O, 169.0 ); if ( frnod((double)l*rn,64.0) >= 32) s = s + t; t = (float) (0.5 * t); s; • Numb<>< I STA1'1STICS& PRQBABIU'l'Y LF:rrm1s January 1990 numbers must be random, front the most- to the least-signifiJ;llllt bits. • Here I, l, K must be in. the range l to 178, and not all 1, while L may be any !01.tger from 0 to 168. • L oUtside the spcci.· filld rang""1, the generator will still be satisfactory. but may not produt» ""'actly lhe samot bit patterns in difftfenl oomputer.s. b~use of uni:enainties when integer operations involve more than 15 bUs.
Section 40.225, Florida Statutes, provides for the selection of jurors to serve within the county by "mechanical, electronic, or electrical device." Pursuant to that section, a majority of judges within the circuit in which the county resides must approve, and the chief judge of the circuit must submit, a description of the method for selecting jurors to the Supreme Court of Florida.
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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.