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713 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Clifton A. Drake across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Division Felony Division A, Felony Division B
Santa Rosa County Courthouse, 4025 Avalon Blvd. Milton FL 32583, Judicial Assistant: Cheryl Newsom, cheryl.newsom@flcourts1.gov, 850-981-5632
Verified against Judge Clifton A. Drake's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Santa Rosa County Courthouse, 4025 Avalon Blvd. Milton FL 32583
Harvested live by BenchPath 2026-07-24 from the circuit's own published record.
Verified 2026-08-02: this circuit publishes NO judge portraits. The 1st's Sanity CMS judge documents carry no image field at all (38 checked via the content API), and the 12th's Judges page serves only a logo, an email-signature graphic and an Adobe button. The missing photo is 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 First District Court of Appeal (Tallahassee).
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Profile upgraded 2026-07-24: bio_url now points to this judge's own page (https://www.firstjudicialcircuit.org/legal-professionals/judges/clifton-a-drake/), confirmed to name them before extraction. The court publishes no biography paragraph for this judge.
2 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 713 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 172 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (January 21, 2022–July 27, 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. Showing the 50 most recent; all 172 are counted in the outcome census above.
Weidman v. State of Florida
last checked September 3, 2026
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First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Youell v. Walton County Clerk of Court and County Comptroller
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Eager Beaver Professional Tree Care, LLC v. Sunz Insurance Company
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Mosley v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Robert Anderson Toyens vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Mitchell v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Parker v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Tankersley v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bert Anthony Gilmore VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Mosley v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Wetherbee v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Howell v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Atkins v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Tobar v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Williamson v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Norris v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Wells v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Parker v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Whigum v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Wilson v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Green v. Cottrell
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Calvin v. Dixon, et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Vasquez v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Sanderson v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Manning v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Halls v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Mosley v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Hisle v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Norris v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Biggs v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Simmons v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Lawlis v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Mason v. Dixon
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Dean v. U.S. Bank National Association, etc. et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Tulenko v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Opry v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jamie Lynn Sharrow VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Williams v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kathleen Ann Betts v. US Bank National Association not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee for RCF 2 Acquisition Trust, et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Wayne A. Adams v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Dept. of Corrections, and C. Maiorana, Facility Admin.
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Shawn Demontre Cooler VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
McCullough v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Sanderson v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Tibbs v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Smith v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Elpiniki Fournaris vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Powell, Powell v. Tarnuzzer
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rubert v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Potter v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brett Alan Boyce VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
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