Continuance Requests at Least 5 Days Before Court — Division… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Continuance Requests at Least 5 Days Before Court — Division T/KK2

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time Computation15th Jud. Cir., Criminal Division T/KK2 Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Hafele requires continuance requests at least five days before the scheduled court date — and no remote appearance at first appearances or RPO hearings.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Criminal Division T/KK2 (Judge Donald W. Hafele)

Source of truth

"A request for continuance must be submitted at least five days prior to the scheduled court date" / "The court does not allow remote appearance for first appearance hearings" / "Parties in RPO hearings are required to appear in person"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-tkk2-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 48a351c1d6e01a8ab6c712efe07869ad57b6d245d4a6d7343e022b74a455f73f); 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the live page, sha256 ec978f51e78ea655e0561be500a79bc18f89f312ba0aa81daea9e951879c6f4e; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/tkk2/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 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division T/KK2 Instructions (Judge Hafele). Review before republishing dependent rules.