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Circuit Judge · Sixth Judicial Circuit Court
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410 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Joseph A. Bulone across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Criminal (Pinellas)
Courtroom Pinellas County Justice Center
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Courthouse, Pinellas County Justice Center, Address
Verified against Judge Joseph A. Bulone's own court profile page, 2026-08-02.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 6th's own judge pages publish a biography but no portrait — page images are site chrome only. 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).
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Profile upgraded 2026-08-02: bio_url now points to this judge's own page (https://www.jud6.org/judge/joseph-a-bulone/), confirmed to name them before extraction. Biography captured verbatim from the court's page.
1 verified rule specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 410 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 267 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (December 30, 2005–July 2, 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 267 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 4, 2026
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Circuit Criminal (Pinellas)current
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
EMANUEL QOSAJ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DANDRE CURTEZ RUSSELL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILBERT CHISM VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WILLIAM HARVEY RICE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STATON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LEONARD DAVID LANNI VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RANDY SCOTT LANE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Killens v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robinson, Jr. v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DARRELL DOMONICK THOMAS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JEFFREY LEE DAVIS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Holte v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEVEN ERIC STANKO vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Beltran v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JAMES C. INGRAM vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
D'ANDRE CURTEZ RUSSELL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CYNTHIA MC KINNEY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Acosta-Cortina v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RICHARD TODD ROBARDS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CLAYON DALE WARNER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CARLOS BELTRAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
PICKETT v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEVEN ERIC STANKO vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JORGE PEREZ DIAZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DARIUS BUSSEY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SHANE LEON HAPPEL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
JAMIEL JERRIDO vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
COURTNEY VLADIMIR FEAZELL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Facyson v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jeffrey Lee Atwater v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
MORRIS J. GILBERT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STEVEN BEEBE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
PARKER M. WELCH vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BARRY LYNN GRIER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KENNETH JAMES PRINCE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SHANKLIN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Weekley v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Prince v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEVEN ERIC STANKO vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MICHAEL HURLEY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ROBERT WARREN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DAMIEN HILL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
VINCENT ROBERSON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
PEDRO MAISONET GONZALEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EMANUEL QOSAJ VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STATE OF FLORIDA vs CRYSTAL MARIE DIXON
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
CHARLES ALBERT HADFIELD vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ANTHONY DAVID SOWELL VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SEAN FLOURNOY VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DERRICK MIDDLETON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Pinellas County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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