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4 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2021-007.
Third Judicial Circuit (Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor). Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. No OCR. Only sentences carrying mandatory language are reproduced — the full order is in custody and is the controlling text. • ASSIGNMENT OF CRIMINAL CASES IN CIRCUIT COURT, COLUMBIA COUNTY NOW THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as the Chief Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit and pursuant to the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration it is hereby ORDERED as follows: 1. • In a situation where co-defendants exist, but no clerk number is assigned and none of the co-defendants have pending cases, the co-defendant with highest charge (as defined first by degree level and then by scoresheet level) at the time the complaint is filed with the State Attorney ' s Office shall control division assignment. • If at any time a case has an existing felony division assignment, is dismissed for any reason, and is later resumed, the case shall be reinstated to the original felony division. 8. • All post-conviction and post-judgment matters shall maintain their designated division assignment.
ASSIGNMENT OF CRIMINAL CASES IN CIRCUIT COURT, COLUMBIA COUNTY NOW THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as the Chief Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit and pursuant to the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration it is hereby ORDERED as follows: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f83a2757e357ac2297150e4fb19d229160d67268c15fb1c0150fc6bb20a4eba2 (249013 bytes).
25 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2022-004.
10 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2014-025.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.