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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.
• 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). [title 2026-09-10: subject taken from the order caption / court file name (SEO/GEO Phase 3); the verbatim text is unchanged] 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. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.