Circuit Judge · Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court
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320 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Danielle Brewer across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Criminal Felony VI — Sarasota County
Also: Administrative Judge — Criminal Division, Sarasota
Effectiveeffective June 1, 2026
Circuit Criminal Felony VI — Sarasota County · Administrative Judge — Criminal Division, Sarasota (eff. 2026-06-01)
Circuit Criminal Felony VI. ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE (effective June 1, 2026, per the court's published Judicial Assignments at https://jud12.flcourts.org/About/Judges): Administrative Judge — Criminal Division, Sarasota.
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 Second District Court of Appeal (St. Petersburg).
● LiveThat court's published bench (15): Andrea Teves Smith, Anthony K. Black, Craig C. Villanti, Daniel H. Sleet, Edward C. LaRose, J. Andrew Atkinson, John Guard, Matthew C. Lucas, Morris Silberman, Nelly Khouzam, Patricia J. Kelly, Robert Morris, Stevan T. Northcutt, Susan H. Rothstein-Youakim
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This tab lists judge-and-division rules only, and this judge's division publishes its practice at the county, circuit, and statewide layers instead — 320 verified requirements still govern this courtroom. The Full Premium Report assembles every one of them, cited.
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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 9 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (June 17, 2022–May 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.
THORNTON v. THORNTON
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
PATTERSON AND WALTER v. CLARKE, et al
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Battaglia, Battaglia v. Centauri Specialty Insurance Company
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
TERRY v. STATE FARM FLORIDA INSURANCE COMPANY
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Anderson v. Sarasota County Public Hospital District
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rachkov, Best Future Homes, Inc. v. Medvednik, Medvedniks
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Battaglia v. Centauri Specialty Insurance Company
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JUAN FRANCISCO VEGA vs DONALD SAWYER, ADMINSTRATOR
Second District Court of Appeal · DeSoto County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jackman v. Cebrink-Schwarz
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Petition - PC Denied
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