Materials 5 Business Days Out; Over 10 Pages Gets a Hard Copy… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Materials 5 Business Days Out; Over 10 Pages Gets a Hard Copy — Division Z

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Courtesy Copies15th Jud. Cir., Criminal Division Z Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Willis needs everything — responses, case law, memoranda — five business days before the hearing, and any document over 10 pages also as a hard copy to the Judge.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Criminal Division Z (Judge Sarah Willis)

Source of truth

"The court must receive all materials for the hearing, including any responses, case law, memorandum, etc. no later than five (5) business days before the hearing" / "If any document is more than 10 pages, please provide a hard copy to the Judge by the deadline" / "All parties must comply with Local Rule 4 prior to requesting a hearing"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-z-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 986ea8c8d807b0b39fca3342ad13497b76ea1e8fa833589b5ee18826e495dd6f; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/z/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Criminal Traffic Criminal — Felony DUI / BUI Criminal — Misdemeanor Bond & Pretrial Release Domestic Violence Battery Traffic (Civil Infractions)Post-Conviction (Rule 3.850)Sealing & Expunction Violation of Probation

Change history

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division Z Instructions (Judge Willis). Review before republishing dependent rules.

Broward Division 82/WC (LAUREN N. PEFFER) — Courtesy copies

1 verbatim requirement on courtesy copies in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.

High confidence· verified September 9, 202617th Jud. Cir., Division 82/WC divisional procedures — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Courtesy CopiesDuval County · Circuit Civil Division CV-F · Judge James H. Daniel

No Courtesy Copies Required — Division CV-F

Judge Daniel is the courthouse outlier who wants NO courtesy copies of pleadings or case law sent to chambers — a sharp contrast with neighboring divisions.

Medium — verify before relying