Brandon J. Rafool
Circuit Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
Circuit Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
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317 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Brandon J. Rafool across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Verified 2026-08-03: the 10th's own judges page publishes portrait galleries for 10 officers; this judge is not among them. The missing photo is a court fact, not a harvest gap.
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Appeals from this courtroom go to the Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
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4 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 317 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.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 18 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (January 17, 2023–July 24, 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.
DONALD DERRICK GAZIE VS J. GARCIA CONSTRUCTION, INC., KNIGHT BROADBAND, LLC, and SPECTRUM SUNSHINE STATE, LLC
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 3, 2026
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MITCHELL DAVE ADCOCK v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WILLIE F. EVANS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DANIEL L. GUNTER, JR., as Putative Personal Representative for and on behalf of the Survivors of the ESTATE OF S. I. G. v. LAKELAND MULTIFAMILY PARTNERS, LLC d/b/a THE RETREAT AT LAKELAND APARTMENTS and ZRS MANAGEMENT, LLC
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
UNIVERSAL PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY VS WENDY D. MONTGOMERY AND MORRIS L. MONTGOMERY
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
PATRICK MICHAEL CRAIG v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Hardee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
SHANDIZ PARK, INC. VS STARLING MORTGAGE GROUP, LLC AND JOE G. TEDDER, TAX COLLECTOR FOR POLK COUNTY,
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CIGN REAL ESTATE, LLC v. SAUNDERS RALSTON DANTZLER REAL ESTATE, LLC
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ALLEN BRICKER AND MARY BRICKER VS HAMMOCK LAKE MOBILE HOME AND RV PARK, INC.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SELL-N-FIX, INC. and FAHME AHMAD v. REGIONS BANK
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANTHONY ROLLS VS BRYAN DRAGAN
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LYDIA IMINZA KIGANI v. BARBARA BURKS MCKENZIE and the ESTATE OF WILLIE ROLLINS
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Hardee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
JIMMY LEE JOHNSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Hardee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MICHELLE MASKOLUNAS, AS SPOUSE, SURVIVOR AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL MASKOLUNAS v. LAKELAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC., D/B/A LAKELAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, JOHN P. ZETTY, D.O. AND BRUCE MEYERS, M.D.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
ROGER SALAZAR v. STEPHANIE ORTIZ
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Hardee County
Disposition (court’s label): Petition - Authored Opinion
JOHN RAYMOND WHITE VS JAMES WESLEY SMITH, I I I, TEELUCK PERSAD AND CPLS, P. A.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS v. CORTEZ GORDON, as Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF DWAYNE CURTIS WEEDON, JR., on behalf of the Estate and his Survivors
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Hardee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JOHN RAYMOND WHITE VS JAMES WESLEY SMITH, III, TEELUCK PERSAD AND CPLS, P. A.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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