Plea Conferences, Calendar Calls & Evidentiary Hearings: In… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Plea Conferences, Calendar Calls & Evidentiary Hearings: In Person — Division U/BUI

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings15th Jud. Cir., Criminal Division U Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Collins requires in-person appearance for plea conferences, calendar calls, and evidentiary hearings absent prior approval — and everyone, including the defendant, present the first morning of the trial period.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Criminal Division U / BUI (Judge Sherri L. Collins)

Source of truth

"Plea Conferences, Calendar Calls, and Evidentiary Hearings must be in person absent prior approval from the Court" / "All parties including the Defendant must be present in person on the first morning of the designated trial period"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-u-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 7f5af720dd800b3d21998af4bbc63e011bfdf758119e33b0ab497f15a5cceb9e); 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the live page, sha256 e73e1e033c57030bd5bd626a6c472fba2dacbbbd41ccfa0ae0e6d7aba6cb2371; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/u/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

DUI / BUI

Change history

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins). Review before republishing dependent rules.