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Judge Willis holds plea conferences, trials, and evidentiary hearings in person absent prior approval; orders in Word to opposing counsel within one week; e-mail subject lines must carry case number, name, and matter.
Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Criminal Division Z (Judge Sarah Willis)
"Plea Conference, Trials, and Evidentiary Hearings must be in person absent prior approval" / "All proposed orders must be submitted in Word format and provided to opposing counsel" / "The subject line of any e-mail to the judicial office must contain the case number, case name, and relevant matter"
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-z-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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 23bae295ccf01063af75945ca2686a9a3c49c6d46441c0479c4b6720caf0f251); 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the live page, sha256 986ea8c8d807b0b39fca3342ad13497b76ea1e8fa833589b5ee18826e495dd6f; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]
1 verbatim requirement published by Palm Beach Division FC on remote appearance policy.
Judge Hooi does not usually allow hybrid hearings (one side in person, one virtual); if both sides prefer, everyone may appear in person instead; emergencies route through the clerk to a judge-entered handling order.
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