Judge James M. Colaw: Continuances — Alachua County, FL · BenchPath

Eighth Cir. — Judge James M. Colaw: Continuances

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time ComputationEighth Judicial Circuit, Judge James M. Colaw’s Division Procedures – The Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida (pp. Court Schedule:, Scheduling Hearings:, Notice of Hearing:, Submission Deadlines:, Order of Proceedings:, Continuance Procedure:, Cancelling Hearings:) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

7 verbatim requirements on continuances.

Applies to

Eighth Judicial Circuit — Judge James M. Colaw only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

The weekly courtroom calendar can be found at: https://circuit8.org/calendars/weekly/Alachua-Criminal-Justice-Center.pdf.

Official source: 8th Circuit — Administrative Orders
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: abb4afca0b4fad6baf54ad2de5c307f29401d1e9ddd986c3b48fd6af528b4b7c. Corpus categories: SCHEDULING_OR_CANCELLATION, COURTESY_COPIES | SPECIAL_SET_OR_EXTENDED_HEARING | SCHEDULING_OR_CANCELLATION, CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK | SCHEDULING_OR_CANCELLATION, SPECIAL_SET_OR_EXTENDED_HEARING | SCHEDULING_OR_CANCELLATION, CONTINUANCES, COURTESY_COPIES | SCHEDULING_OR_CANCELLATION. Operative status as recorded: LIVE_PAGE_CURRENT_AS_CRAWLED. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. SOURCE DRIFT MEASURED 2026-07-24: the page(s) these requirements were captured from have been edited since capture. A live re-read found 31 of 33 published requirements (94%) still present on 1 source page (/courts-judges/judge-james-m-colaw/judge-james-m-colaws-division-procedures/). The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which. Confidence held at high because the overwhelming majority survived verbatim. Re-verify before relying on any single clause. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Change history

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