No Negotiated Pleas on the Day of Trial — Division R — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

No Negotiated Pleas on the Day of Trial — Division R

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir., Criminal Division R Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Parnofiello will not accept negotiated pleas on trial day absent good cause — resolve the case before the trial date or try it.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Criminal Division R (Judge John J. Parnofiello)

Source of truth

"Absent good cause, the Court will not accept negotiated pleas on the day of trial" / "Motions for continuance are disfavored and will be granted only upon good cause shown"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-r-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 e531950612fd47b2331419da82602e5cd44eaab6161430b96972479a38fc90d6); all 2 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 cac13af495d576de0e9d5fa883c1190c7868f44c4491de92ec81a06b4b60abb8; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/r/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 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division R Instructions (Judge Parnofiello). Review before republishing dependent rules.