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No Speedy Waiver = First Priority on the Trial Calendar — Division L/T2

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time Computation15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division L/T2 Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Bristow gives cases WITHOUT a speedy-trial waiver first priority on the trial calendar; calendar calls run every other Friday for two-week trial periods, and speedy demands get a courtesy copy to the division.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Criminal Division L / T2 (Judge April Bristow)

Source of truth

"Cases without a waiver of speedy trial have first priority on the trial calendar." / "Calendar calls are held every other Friday at 8:30 a.m for a two week trial period." / "upon the filing of a Demand for Speedy Trial, a courtesy copy shall be sent to the divisional email"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow)
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

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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-l-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 11bf5b7dcfd586b5778baeeab609363dbe67d06f51646f0d683dc80e88efe3f7); 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the live page, sha256 40b408affe06d9969ca55e219c14701727ead5518319651d8dbded3a29d82dd1; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/l/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026