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36 verbatim requirements from the procedure documents published under "CC-N Judge Gary Flower".
Fourth Judicial Circuit, Duval County. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the documents linked under "CC-N Judge Gary Flower" on https://www.jud4.org/ex-parte-dates-judge-s-procedures/duval-judges, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • These requests must be made at least seven (7) working days in advance of the hearing. • Attorneys are required to appear in person, unless they communicate to opposing party as well as the court their intention to appear telephonically or via zoom. • All motions must appear on the docket prior to requesting hearing times. • A notice of a hearing set unilaterally due to a lack of cooperation must describe, in detail, the efforts made to reach agreement on the hearing date. • Unilaterally set hearings that do not describe efforts to agree on a hearing date may be cancelled by the Court without notice. • Material received after that deadline may not be considered. • Materials may be submitted electronically by email to Judge Flower’s Judicial Assistant at mspringer@coj.net and must be copied to the opposing parties as well. • Highlighting is helpful, but if you highlight a document, identical copies must be provided to all other parties in advance of the hearing. • If there is an unrepresented party involved in the case not using e-Portal, the party presenting the proposed order, shall be responsible for providing a conformed copy to the unrepresented party forthwith. • Proposed orders following a hearing must be submitted within 5 days. • The cover letter must affirmatively state whether the other parties object or do not object to the form of the order. • Any party objecting to the form of an order must notify chambers immediately and submit a competing order within 3 days. • The first paragraph of the order must state that the parties agree to the relief afforded by the order, and it must identify the stipulation or motion providing the basis for the relief. • The email may briefly describe why the party’s proposed form is correct, but additional legal argument is prohibited. • When appearing for a trial, each party must supply enough copies of each exhibit for every party, the Court, and the Clerk. • Those who chose to represent themselves should be aware that at no time shall you unilaterally communicate with the Court or the Judicial Assistant regarding your case. • 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. • Conversa�ons between or amongst atorneys and/or defendants and vic�ms must be conducted outside of the courtroom to minimize noise and maintain the required decorum. • Conversa�ons 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 wri�ng 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 wri�ng and filed with the clerk. • However, there shall be no waiver of defendant’s appearance at the final pretrial conference, at any cri�cal stage in the proceeding in which, if Defendant is not present, may result in more delays in their case, or a�er 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 discre�on. 11) At Arraignment, the State shall be prepared to advise the Court of the following: a. • The speedy trial date. 12) A�er arraignment the Court shall pass the case, at the Court’s discre�on. • A Final Pre-Trial (FPT) conference shall be scheduled in each case which has been scheduled for jury selec�on. 13) Once a case is set for trial, this Court shall distribute a writen Trial Order by which all par�es 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 nego�ated disposi�on 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 Informa�on; 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 no�fy 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 no�fied by the Court in wri�ng 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 no�fy the Deputy Clerk of Court before the Judge takes the bench or prior to the case being called, so as to allow sufficient �me 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. -- 3 of 3 --
These requests must be made at least seven (7) working days in advance of the hearing.
Reviewer note: Page sha256: a8e70ab94dc6af2d448a0aced7dd9edd3f06b98067c2c2d2a2cad89942b6704f. Requirements taken from the judge's own procedure documents' text layers.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.