Good morning, please see below. And feel free to post.
1. If you have an out of custody client everybody stays home.
2. If you have an in custody client for arraignment and there are no “release” type motions or plea that will get him or her released, everybody stay home.
3. IF IN EITHER OF ABOVE SITUATIONS the case is still printing, and it may because this is a little messy, STAY HOME, tell your client to stay home, it will be reset in your absence.
4. If you are walking into REG it is because there is a true emergency on your case or you will be making an argument for release or you have negotiated a plea that will get your client released.
5. First appearances will continue as normal for now.
Please call or email me if you have any questions.
I am cc’ing my fellow Adm Judges in the County, DV & Juvenile. Please direct questions on those divisions to them. Thank you.
Nushin G. Sayfie, Circuit Court JudgeAdministrative Judge of the Criminal Division
Rumpole Monday Update: Every dark cloud has it's bright lights. More than a decade of dark arts and cheating has finally come to an end and our long national nightmare is over as Cheater QB Tom Brady announces that he is leaving the Cheater Patriots. Finally life can get back to normal.
Rumpole says get back to work!!!??? What? The foremost proponent of social distancing wants people to get back to work? Yes, under this scenario: 1) Social distancing until the end of April. Get updated virus numbers for US to ensure that the viral curve is flattening; 2) Follow China model and closely examine the use of certain antiviral drugs that China has been using. China will release those numbers shortly and if there is a response to the antiviral drugs, then people under the age of 60 should return to work as long as the US has a stockpile of the drugs. This gets the economy back on track by the summer.
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LATEST ORDER FROM CHIEF JUDGE SOTO:
(Breaking News #2: Ohio Governor DeWine reads the Blog. His State has postponed Tuesday's primary and they are preparing to go to an all VBM [Vote By Mail] system. Governor DeSantis - read my Blog Post from this morning).
THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO. 20-1
(Court Administration)
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
NO. 20-02
IN RE: COVID-19 EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF COURT
FACILITIES TO THE PUBLIC IN THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA
FROM MARCH 17-27, 2020.
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WHEREAS, Supreme Court Administrative Order No. AOSC20-13 sets forth COVID-19 Emergency Procedures in the Florida State Courts.
WHEREAS, mitigating the transmission of COVID-19 is a high priority, and due to the imminent danger posed by this severe acute respiratory illness that can spread among humans by way of respiratory transmission throughout Miami-Dade County, the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court has implemented its Continuity of Operations Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in me as Chief Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, under Rule 2.215, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration it is hereby ORDERED:
1. Public access to court facilities is permitted for First Appearances, Baker Act and Substance Abuse (Marchman Act) proceedings, Juvenile Shelter and Detention proceedings, and emergency proceedings noticed by the presiding judge.
2. Except for the above proceedings, no public access will be allowed at any of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit’s courthouses beginning Tuesday, March 17 through Friday, March 27, 2020.
DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, this 16th of March 2020.
BERTILA SOTO, CHIEF JUDGE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA
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