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Exhibits 3 Days Before Evidentiary, Interpreters 7 Days — Division T/KK2

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Trial Exhibits15th Jud. Cir., Criminal Division T/KK2 Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Hafele: exhibits in chambers three days before any evidentiary proceeding, courtesy copies two days out, all hearing materials three business days ahead, and interpreter requests seven days in advance.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"All exhibits must be received in chambers three days before the evidentiary proceeding" / "Courtesy copies must be delivered to the court no later than two days before any evidentiary proceeding" / "Requests for spoken language court interpreters must be received at least 7 days in advance"

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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-tkk2-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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the live page, sha256 ec978f51e78ea655e0561be500a79bc18f89f312ba0aa81daea9e951879c6f4e; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]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.