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Judge Small's delinquency clock: the Court intends to try any case with a youth in secure detention within 21 days of arrest — with jury instructions, motions in limine, and memoranda all due 48 hours before trial day one.
Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Juvenile Division JA/JM (Judge Lisa S. Small)
"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."
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ja-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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the live page, sha256 dc81cb78a056b905daaa437b5238c94f12de033fe242a919d40e6a586f56c919; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]
10 verbatim courtroom requirements from Judge Margaret R. Taylor's published division procedures.
Judge Taylor (under the shared County Criminal Standing Pretrial Order): continuance motions for in-custody defendants must be filed at least 48 hours before the court date to cancel jail transport, and all pleas are in person absent a pre-approved plea in absentia.
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