Circuit Judge · Fourth Judicial Circuit Court
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1,748 verified requirements and 8 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Lester Bass across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit — Division C (Nassau)
Courtroom/hearing room Procedures
From the circuit's own Circuit and County Judges table, verified 2026-07-25.
Verified 2026-08-03: jud4.org publishes no judge portraits — the roster is a text table and the biographies page carries no judge photos. 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).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Adrian G. Soud, Brian D. Lambert, Eric J. Eisnaugle, F. Rand Wallis, Harvey L. Jay, James A. Edwards, Joe Boatwright, John M. Harris, John MacIver, Paige Kilbane, Scott Makar
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
4th Circuit publishes no individual judge page: the bench is a table and biographies and procedures are on shared county pages. Division, courtroom and phone taken from the table; the court publishes no biography for this judge.
2 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 1,748 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. 8 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.
No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 14 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (August 29, 2019–May 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.
LOUIS EUGENE PAYTON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 4, 2026
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Kenneth Takvis Lizzamore vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Patrick Anduiola Sailor vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Calvin Maurice Graham Jr. vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Dorene Thompson v. Stephen E. Thompson
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Nassau County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kevin F. Stouse v. Jacqueline M. Stouse
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Nassau County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kevin F. Stouse v. Jacqueline M. Stouse
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Nassau County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
C.T. v. IN RE: THE ADOPTION OF C.C.T., A CHILD
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Nassau County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jamie Hunter v. Kenneth W. Hunter, Jr., Premier Homes of North Florida, Inc., and 2834 Investments, LLC,
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Nassau County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
MICHAEL GAY VS MALEANA GAY F/K/A MALEANA MANN, TIMOTHY MANN
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Certiorari Review of Order from the Circuit Court for Nassau County
Disposition (court’s label): Petition - Per Curiam Opinion
Maleana Gay, f/k/a/ Maleana Mann vs Timothy Mann
First District Court of Appeal · Nassau County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
William Todd Larimore vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Shuron Hester vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Samuel Fagin vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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