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3 verbatim requirements from Fourth Circuit administrative order 1996-17.
Fourth Judicial Circuit (Duval). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • When assigning a judge to hear any type of post-conviction or collateral relief proceeding brought by a defendant who has been sentenced to death, the Chief Judge will endeavor to assign to such cases the judge whovpresided over the original proceeding if that judge is active or otherwise available toserve v.mles§’oth€r‘vvise directed by the Supreme Court. Thus, if a Motion under Rule 3.850 of is tiled and presented to a judge who is not the original sentencing Judge, the Motion should be promptly delivered to the Chief Judge for re-assignment. • The Chief Judge will monitor the status of all post-conviction or collateral relief proceedings brought by defendants who have been sentenced to death and shall take the necessary actions to assure that such actions proceed without undue delay. To achieve these objectives, each circuit judge shall complete the attached form, DEATH ROW POST-CONVICTION STATUS REPORT, for each pending post-conviction or collateral relief proceeding brought by defendants who have been sentenced to death. These forms shall be completed and forwarded to the Chief Judge no later than fifteen (15) days prior to July 1 and October 1 of 1996, and no later than fifteen (15) days prior to January l, April 1, July 1, and October 1 each year thereafter.
When assigning a judge to hear any type of post-conviction or collateral relief proceeding brought by a defendant who has been sentenced to death, the Chief Judge will endeavor to assign to such cases the judge whovpresided over the original proceeding if that judge is active or otherwise available toserve v.mles§’oth€r‘vvise directed by the Supreme Court. Thus, if a Motion under Rule 3.850 of is tiled and presented to a judge who is not the original sentencing Judge, the Motion should be promptly delivered to the Chief Judge for re-assignment.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 96faf23dd88a099c1b36a5201c0878ad6bb75e55fc721d8d2b2a9a34d42ff86e. Extracted from the order's own text layer. Identity confirmed by the document's /Title. | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from Fourth Circuit administrative order 2003-06.