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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.
Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Criminal Division L / T2 (Judge April Bristow)
"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"
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-l-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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the live page, sha256 40b408affe06d9969ca55e219c14701727ead5518319651d8dbded3a29d82dd1; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]
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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