Zoom Free-for-All on Dispositions & Status — Written Motion for Everything Else — Division L/T2 · BenchPath

Zoom Free-for-All on Dispositions & Status — Written Motion for Everything Else — Division L/T2

High confidence· verified August 4, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division L/T2 Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Bristow lets parties Zoom into case dispositions and status checks any day (in-custody defendants excused), with defense counsel conferring with the State beforehand — all other remote appearances need a written motion 3 days out.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"Parties may appear over ZOOM for case dispositions and status checks regardless of the day scheduled." / "any defense counsel appearing via Zoom must confer with the State ahead of time regarding the status of case" / "Any request for a ZOOM hearing must be made by written motion filed with the Clerk and served on all opposing parties no later than three (3) days before the scheduled hearing."

Official source: PBC County Court — Division L/T2 Instructions (Judge Bristow)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 3, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: August 4, 2026benchpath-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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-l-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 40b408affe06d9969ca55e219c14701727ead5518319651d8dbded3a29d82dd1; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]

Criminal Traffic Criminal — Felony DUI / BUI Criminal — Misdemeanor Bond & Pretrial Release Domestic Violence Battery Traffic (Civil Infractions)Post-Conviction (Rule 3.850)Sealing & Expunction Violation of Probation

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

Palm Beach Division FC (Judge Karen M. Miller) — Remote appearance policy

1 verbatim requirement published by Palm Beach Division FC on remote appearance policy.

High confidence· verified July 24, 202615th Jud. Cir., Division FC divisional pages (news) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

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Judge Hooi does not usually allow hybrid hearings (one side in person, one virtual); if both sides prefer, everyone may appear in person instead; emergencies route through the clerk to a judge-entered handling order.

High confidence

Zoom Free-for-All on Dispositions & Status — Written Motion for Everything Else — Division L/T2

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