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

Eighth Cir. — Judge James M. Colaw: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesEighth Judicial Circuit, Judge James M. Colaw’s Division Procedures – The Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida (pp. PAGE INTRODUCTION, Method of Communication:, Ex parte Communications:, Unsolicited Communications:, Response to Inquiries:, Platform Meeting ID#:, CF Plea Forms:, When Required:, Requirements:, Scheduling:) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

15 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

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

Judge Colaw’s Division Procedures Alachua Criminal Division III & Bradford Circuit Criminal NOTE: To submit a pleading or correspondence, send your document to the Clerk of Court. (Do not send original letters or pleadings to the Judge’s office). Alachua Clerk of Court: https://alachuacounty.us/Depts/Clerk/Pages/Clerk.aspx Bradford Clerk of Court: https://bradfordclerk.com/

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: OTHER_PUBLISHED_PROCEDURE, COURTESY_COPIES. 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 The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which.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]

Criminal — Felony Bond & Pretrial Release Violation of Probation

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