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Allocates Lake circuit work in quarters: Baxley/Davis/Rada/Welke each take 1/4 criminal (incl. Ryce, excl. death penalty) + 1/4 death penalty + 1/4 non-jury civil (incl. foreclosure) + 1/4 probate; Mosley 1/2 civil jury; Nimeth and Takac 1/4 civil jury + 1/4 family each; Boylston and Toti 1/4 family each plus juvenile/DV/guardianship/mental-health splits; specialty courts assigned by name; child-support add-on to county Judge Jones eff. Feb. 2, 2026.
Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • Felony arraignments shall be scheduled Monday of each week at 8:30 A.M. Each judge shall schedule felony sentencings for his docket on the same Monday as his arraignment day. In the event Monday is a holiday, arraignment and sentencing shall be scheduled on the following work day. Each judge handling criminal shall make all possible efforts to schedule his primary criminal trial week on the Monday following his sentencing day so as to avoid conflicts. • In an effort to reduce juror costs, all jury selection shall occur on the first day of the work week unless circumstances beyond a judge’s control require selection on a different day.
Felony arraignments shall be scheduled Monday of each week at 8:30 A.M. Each judge shall schedule felony sentencings for his docket on the same Monday as his arraignment day. In the event Monday is a holiday, arraignment and sentencing shall be scheduled on the following work day. Each judge handling criminal shall make all possible efforts to schedule his primary criminal trial week on the Monday following his sentencing day so as to avoid conflicts.
Reviewer note: Fetched + hashed + text-verified 2026-07-20 (sha256 ea545573…). | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.