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13 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 2021-12.
Fourth Judicial Circuit (Duval, Clay, Nassau). Administrative orders change without notice; the circuit's own order controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order, captured live 2026-08-03 from the Duval Clerk's store; whitespace normalised only. • Whenever a defendant is arrested, the following program shall be activated and a felony division assigned to the case accordingly, except in regard to a homicide or traffic homicide case. a. • If the defendant has other pending cases, the following reassignment procedure shall be utilized: i. • If there is a pending filed felony case, the filed case takes precedence, and all subsequent cases involving said defendant shall be assigned to the division that has the lowest Clerk’s case number. • When such a pending filed felony case exists, the Office of the State Attorney shall notify the Doc # 2021149760, OR BK 19764 Page 662, Number Pages: • When a defendant with felony charges pending against him or her is charged with a jail-related offense, including but not limited to Escape, Aiding Escape, Introduction of Contraband into a Jail Facility or Battery in a Detention Facility, the jail-related case shall be assigned to the division with the pending case. • If there is no filed case number, then the case shall be assigned to the division with the lowest arrest docket number. • When a judge places a defendant on probation and that defendant, while on probation, is arrested on new felony charges, the case, regardless of the date of offense, shall be assigned to the felony division that placed the defendant on probation. • If the defendant is placed in a diversion program by the State Attorney, and the case is thereafter filed, the case shall thereafter remain assigned to the original division. • If a defendant is arrested on new felony charges while the diversion case is still in diversion status, the new arrest shall be assigned to the division to which the diversion was originally assigned. • If at any time a case has an existing felony division assignment and is dismissed for any reason (i.e., nolle prosequi, dismissal, failure to file charges) and is later activated, the case shall be reinstated to the original felony division. • When a defendant is arrested for a new homicide or traffic homicide case, the following progiam shall be activated and a felony division assigned to the case accordingly. • Once a defendant is arrested on a homicide case, that homicide case shall be assigned pursuant to the random assignment described above. • All pending cases against the homicide defendant(s), including probation, diverted, or other pending cases, and co-defendants with related cases, shall be transferred to the division to which the homicide case has been assigned.
Whenever a defendant is arrested, the following program shall be activated and a felony division assigned to the case accordingly, except in regard to a homicide or traffic homicide case. a.
Reviewer note: Composed from the clerk's own bytes during the 4th's ledger close 2026-08-03 (sha256 539bc6e5463b50e4…).
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.