Circuit Judge · Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court
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320 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Donna Marie Padar across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Criminal Felony II — Sarasota County
Circuit Criminal Felony II. AO 2026-05.4 renders the name "Donna Padar".
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.
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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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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 149 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (October 23, 2020–July 22, 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 149 are counted in the outcome census above.
JAMES W. AUBREY VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label):
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
KEYVUS ZECHARIAH CANADY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BARIENBROCK v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CRUZ v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BAUTISTA v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Hertsch Delehanty v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Beasley v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JOHN CHRISTOPHER DIENST VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Chang v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Andrews v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MITCHELL v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Clark v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
FERNANDEZ v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Baird v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JEFFERY GESKE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
AVILA v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GLASZ v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BARNES v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Furr v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Costello v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CAMPBELL v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DURANT v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ROGER MARX DESENBERG VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BUTLER v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BROWN, JR. v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DELONG v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
HOWARD v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ALBERT v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ROGER MARX DESENBERG VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
FRALEY v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
COOK v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Giffard v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DEDAJ v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ADKINS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
TERRY ANTHONY CAMPBELL VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANDERSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Chisholm v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
COE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Carter v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CARTER v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JEFFERY GESKE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Batson v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
FIGE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANDREWS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
COHOONE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ADAMS, III v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brown v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JAMARCUS CHARLES VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ABNAR, I I I v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BOYCE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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