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20 verbatim requirements from Criminal Courtroom Procedures.
Fourth Judicial Circuit (Duval, Clay, Nassau). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.jud4.org/getContentAsset/9028809d-c118-4ee0-9461-d23f4bd10f57/135b97c9-84fa-4e82-b956-0fbccec4aa1f/Div-N-Criminal-Procedures.pdf?language=en, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • All atorneys shall be available and prepared to handle their assigned cases as called by the court. • All appearances shall be presumed to be in person. 2) Judge Flower will announce the cases to be called during the morning docket. 3) For private counsel, conflict counsel, and RCC, cases may be called out of order to accommodate the atorneys’ needed presence in other courtrooms before other judges. • You may not request the defendant and have him/her placed in a holding cell, while you await the arrival of opposing counsel. 4) There shall be NO TALKING in the courtroom while courtroom proceedings are in progress unless a recess has been called. • Conversations between or amongst atorneys and/or defendants and victims must be conducted outside of the courtroom to minimize noise and maintain the required decorum. • Conversations with defendants, if detained, must have occurred prior to the defendant being brought into the courtroom, unless specifically authorized otherwise by the Court. 5) All telephones are to be set on silent. • Ringing telephones shall result in your removal from the courtroom. • Requests for recording by the media shall be made in writing prior to the proceeding and shall be approved prior to the beginning of the proceeding. • Defender prior to arraignment or plea. 8) Defense counsel shall not waive the presence of any in-custody defendant, who has been transported to the courthouse from the jail, without prior approval of the Court absent good cause. • Any waivers of appearance of the defendant shall be in writing and filed with the clerk. • However, there shall be no waiver of defendant’s appearance at the final pretrial conference, at any critical stage in the proceeding in which, if Defendant is not present, may result in more delays in their case, or after the Court declares the need for Defendant to be present. • Do not move or remove the microphone from the podium. 10) Side bar conferences during the docket are discouraged and shall be kept to a minimum and are at the Court’s discretion. 11) At Arraignment, the State shall be prepared to advise the Court of the following: a. • The speedy trial date. 12) After arraignment the Court shall pass the case, at the Court’s discretion. • A Final Pre-Trial (FPT) conference shall be scheduled in each case which has been scheduled for jury selection. 13) Once a case is set for trial, this Court shall distribute a writen Trial Order by which all parties shall abide. 14) At the final pre-trial conference, the defendant shall be present (there shall be no waiver of • Counsel for each party shall be prepared to report the following: a. • Richardson hearing. 15) In the event of the entry of a plea by a defendant, either to a negotiated disposition or straight up/open plea to the Court, the State shall be prepared to report on the following if asked to do so by the Court: a. any minimum and maximum sentences, as charged in the Information; and b. the factual basis for the plea. 16) If an atorney wishes to add, remove, or pass a case to another scheduled date, that atorney shall consult with opposing counsel about same. • The moving party shall then notify the Court’s judicial assistant VIA EMAIL at Mspringer@coj.net (cc’ing opposing counsel) NO LATER THAN 72 HOURS PRIOR TO THE REQUESTED DATE. • These requests must be received by the court and ruled upon prior to the scheduled court date. • Each party shall expect to be present on the date scheduled unless notified by the Court in writing of the schedule change. • If an atorney wishes to effectuate an “in court add-on” of another case not on the docket, the atorney shall notify the Deputy Clerk of Court before the Judge takes the bench or prior to the case being called, so as to allow sufficient time for the necessary paperwork to be prepared by the clerk. “In court add-ons” should not occur with frequency and shall be kept to a minimum, and shall be subject to Court approval. • All persons entering Courtroom 403 shall conduct themselves professionally.
All atorneys shall be available and prepared to handle their assigned cases as called by the court.
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1 verbatim courtroom requirement published by Judge Michael Brown.
Section CA 03 / CA 35 (Judge Gina Beovides, 11th Cir. Circuit Civil): Foreclosure Motion Calendar: Monday 10:30 AM · Transfer Calendar: Wednesday (archived 9:00 AM; July 2026 read 9:30 AM — confirm current time)