James R. Baxley
Circuit Judge · Fifth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Circuit Judge · Fifth Judicial Circuit Court
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873 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge James R. Baxley across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Administrative Judge — Lake County
From Judge James R. Baxley's own profile page on the circuit's county judiciary index, verified 2026-07-25.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 5th's own county judiciary pages render name-only rosters with 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 Fifth District Court of Appeal (Daytona Beach).
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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. 873 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.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 97 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (May 5, 2020–July 21, 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 97 are counted in the outcome census above.
Robert L. Grissom v. State of Florida
last checked September 3, 2026
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Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Steven Trent Ellis v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Marcus Darnell Shaw v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEVEN ELLIS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Dennis L. Scott v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JUAN CARLOS ESPINOZA vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TROD O. BUGGS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brittany Hutcheson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SHANE FRANCIS MOLESKY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JEAN SUGRIN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILLIAM MICHAEL WINDSOR vs COACH HOUSES AT LEESBURG CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC.,
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari Review of Order from the Circuit Court for Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Non-dispositive
ISIAH EMMANUEL VELAZQUEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILLIE C. HALL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
NORMAN BABERS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MICHAEL ARTHUR JUDE, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Vincent Julian Thomas v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Mason Moton v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GAVIN HUNTER VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Lawrence John Gudmestad v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brandon Fritzke v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MISAEL ANTHONY DIAZ VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BRIAN EUGENE DAY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILLIE CHARLES HALL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Helen Gilchrist v. Cornelius Davis and Katrina Southward
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Stephanie A. McRae, DDS, a Sole Proprietorship, SM Dental, LLC, and Stephanie A. McRae v. Bank of America, N.A., and National Lending Services, LLC
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Richard Carnell Solomon, Jr. v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHARLES CARTER VS PEYTON C. GRINNELL, AS SHERIFF OF LAKE COUNTY FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
JOHN EDWARD NAILS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Trodd Okeka Buggs a/k/a Trod Okeka Buggs v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JAMES DAVID PEREZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
U.S. Bank, N.A. As Successor Trustee to Bank of America, N.A. et al v. Sirolli Properties, et al
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ROGER DALE SANDS, JR. VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Andrew Williams v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Marco Antonio Cardenas v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kevin Scott Hegwood v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GARY EFERIN HENDRIX vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Garrett Alexander Slone v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jamous Danaile Walker v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Hezekiah Benjamin v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MICHAEL JOSEPH CATANEO, SR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Charles Fred Fesler v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LANI RAE GIOVANETTI VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GREGORY SCOTT DELAINE vs DONNA MARIE FORREST
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Gary L. Mosley, Jr. v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
JOHNNY PAUL WALKER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
THOMAS WARREN HALSEY VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
NORMAN BABERS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Arthur W. Spencer v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHARLES SESLER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LAWRENCE ANDREW INGRAM vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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