Judge Sarah J. Jones: Judge preferences — Lake County, FL · BenchPath

Fifth Cir. — Judge Sarah J. Jones: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesFifth Judicial Circuit — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

2 summarised requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

At least five business days’ notice is required; service on a self-represented party should provide at least 10 days and proof.

Official source: 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Provenance record

Source sha256: . Corpus categories: NOTICE_PERIOD, PROPOSED_FINAL_ORDER. 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the live page, sha256 f485887c91120dd63b46c7893f30ffdaf4467ddd9f67e014bcd26705e268f148; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]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the live page, sha256 f485887c91120dd63b46c7893f30ffdaf4467ddd9f67e014bcd26705e268f148; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.circuit5.org/courts-judges/lake-county/judiciary/sarah-j-jones/), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Criminal Traffic Criminal — Felony DUI / BUI Criminal — Misdemeanor Bond & Pretrial Release Domestic Violence Battery Traffic (Civil Infractions)Post-Conviction (Rule 3.850)Sealing & Expunction Violation of Probation

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.