4th Cir. Admin. Order 1986-23 — Assignment of Criminal Cases in Circuit Court Fifth Amended Administrative Order No. 86-23 · BenchPath

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4th Cir. Admin. Order 1986-23 — Assignment of Criminal Cases in Circuit Court Fifth Amended Administrative Order No. 86-23

High confidence· verified July 26, 2026Administrative Orders4th Jud. Cir. Admin. Order 1986-23 (Duval Clerk repository)

Summary

12 verbatim requirements from Fourth Circuit administrative order 1986-23 (a further document filed under the same order number).

Applies to

Fourth Judicial Circuit (Duval). Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

Verbatim from Fourth Circuit administrative order 1986-23 as published by the Duval County Clerk, harvested 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • The random assignment of all felony cases shall be initiated through the State • When a judge places a defendant on probation and that defendant, while on probation, acquires new felony charges, the case, regardless of the date of offense, shall be assigned to the felony division which placed the defendant on probation; and b. • When an “at-large" felony worthless check case is to be assigned, the case shall be assigned to the division which has the lowest pending State Attorney case number for any ofthe defendant's prior worthless check cases. in the absence of a prior case, then the case shall follow the random division assignment criteria. -- 2 of 4 -- • 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 must be reinstated to the original felony division. • All homicide cases, as described in Chapter 782, Florida Statutes (which include first degree murder, second degree murder, third degree murder and manslaughter) shall be randomly assigned to a felony division. • Once a homicide case is filed pursuant to the random assignment as 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. • All cases currently assigned to a felony division, including capiases issued prior to January 9, 2017, shall maintain their designated division assignments. • All post-conviction and post-judgment matters shall maintain their designated division assignments. • Any case in which a defendant's sentence has been reversed on appeal, shall be retried and/or re-sentenced according to the appellate mandate and by the original division to which the case was assigned. • Administrative Order No. 88~21), shall remain in full force and effect unless any terms or conditions appear to be contradictory, in which case, this Administrative Order shall supersede the contradictory portions of such Order(s). • That this Administrative Order shall be recorded by the Clerk ofthe Court, in the • All terms and conditions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect unless and until otherwise ordered by this Court.

Source of truth

The random assignment of all felony cases shall be initiated through the State

Official source: Duval County Clerk of Courts — Fourth Circuit administrative orders
Source health: Healthy · checked July 26, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 26, 2026benchpath-duval-variants-2026-07-26

Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: aee68e2c2c5c118a47d7e370a1305182fa9a4ecc15799f98592bff7b3464c39f. Extracted from the order's own text layer. One of several documents the Clerk publishes under order number 1986-23.