Judge Edward C. Spaight: courtroom procedures — Citrus County, FL · BenchPath

5th Cir. — Judge Edward C. Spaight: courtroom procedures

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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

154 verbatim requirements from Judge Edward C. Spaight's published procedures.

Applies to

Fifth Judicial Circuit (Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Sumter) — Judge Edward C. Spaight's courtroom only. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

A lawyer must not seek clients through the use of misleading or manipulative oral and written representations or advertisements.

Official source: 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 8, 2026benchpath-p3-vision-recompose-2026-09-08

Reviewer note: Page sha256: cbcb805f8176f6339ffb1b2747ddef33649235647f534ef8a0003eb4a8c1e363. Sourced from the judge's own profile page, confirmed by its heading before extraction. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3c): text-layer artifacts corrected (escape leaks, dropped spaces, single-token OCR mis-reads); wording unchanged. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3f): page headers/footers, ligatures and letter-spaced headings normalised; wording untouched. 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 procedure documents linked on Judge Edward C. Spaight's own profile page, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] [Corrected 2026-09-26: 1 bulleted sentence had been cut at a semicolon -- a list stem or item published without the rest of its sentence. 1 was removed because the rest of the sentence could not be published whole from the rule's own source (a list item or recital, a page chunk, or a source that is no longer reachable).]

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