Judge Mary P. Hatcher: Judge preferences — Sumter County, FL · BenchPath

Fifth Cir. — Judge Mary P. Hatcher: Judge preferences

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Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

1 summarised requirement on judge preferences.

Applies to

Fifth Judicial Circuit — Judge Mary P. Hatcher only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Chambers should be notified after a filing is accepted through the e-portal rather than before it appears on the docket.

Official source: 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: August 4, 2026benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Provenance record

Source sha256: . Corpus categories: EFILE_NOTICE. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: NORMALIZED_FROM_OFFICIAL_SOURCE; NOT A VERBATIM QUOTE. PARAPHRASE — published at medium confidence because the corpus itself marks this text as a summary, not a quotation. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, topical (July quotes no longer live)): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 29a93e27f94eec9171b977a4c54215fee16d9c2f91155e9b8a9de307e9804ec9; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, topical (July quotes no longer live)): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 29a93e27f94eec9171b977a4c54215fee16d9c2f91155e9b8a9de307e9804ec9; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.circuit5.org/courts-judges/sumter-county/judiciary/mary-p-hatcher/), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Criminal — Felony

Change history

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