Ariel Rodriguez
Circuit Judge · Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 2, 2026
Circuit Judge · Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court
What applies in this courtroom
971 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Ariel Rodriguez across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Criminal — Section F021
Courtroom REG 217
Catherine Lopez-Ramon
Contact details published by the court for scheduling and chambers procedure questions — always confirm preferences with the JA before a hearing.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 11th's own Judicial Directory detail view for this judge publishes contact and section facts but no biography prose. A court fact, not a harvest gap.
Captured verbatim from the court's own published pages and orders during circuit verification. Chambers practices change without notice — confirm anything time-critical with the judicial assistant. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Third District Court of Appeal (Miami).
● LiveThat court's published bench (10): Alexander S. Bokor, Bronwyn C. Miller, Edwin A. Scales, III, Fleur J. Lobree, Ivan F. Fernandez, Kansas R. Gooden, Kevin Emas, Monica Gordo, Norma S. Lindsey, Thomas Logue
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
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2 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 971 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 6 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 7 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (February 19, 2025–July 30, 2026) that name this judge as the lower-tribunal judge — the courts’ own disposition labels, counted verbatim. This is a census of the appellate record we hold, not a complete case history, an affirmance rate, or a performance rating.
Florida appellate and Supreme Court opinions naming this judge as the lower-tribunal judge, taken verbatim from each court’s official slip opinion (source-hashed). Descriptive record, not a rating.
Daniel Valdez v. State of Florida
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
last checked September 4, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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Antonio Miller v. State of Florida
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Fredrick Clark v. The State of Florida
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Marvin Mesamours v. State of Florida
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Wilson Verela v. The State of Florida
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Barry Sneed v. State of Florida
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Gerald Shiflet v. State of Florida, et al.
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
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