Secure-Detention Youth Tried Within 21 Days of Arrest — Division JA/JM

Source of truth

"it is the Court's intention to try any cases in which a youth is held in secure detention within 21 days of arrest." / "Agreed Jury Instructions are to be emailed to the JA no later than 48 hours prior to the first day of trial." / "Witness and Exhibit Lists are to be exchanged prior to calendar call."

Official source

15th Cir. — Division JA/JM Instructions (Judge Small)

Source health

Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

Effective date

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Last verified

September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Verified against the live official page on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ja-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 dc81cb78a056b905daaa437b5238c94f12de033fe242a919d40e6a586f56c919); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 dc81cb78a056b905daaa437b5238c94f12de033fe242a919d40e6a586f56c919; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/ja/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]