Melissa Gravitt
Circuit Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
Circuit Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
What applies in this courtroom
317 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Melissa Gravitt across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Juvenile Dependency Sec J4 — Polk County
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Verified 2026-08-03: the 10th's own judges page publishes portrait galleries for 10 officers; this judge is not among them. The missing photo is a court fact, not a harvest gap.
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Appeals from this courtroom go to the Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
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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 — 317 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 77 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (April 15, 2020–June 16, 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 77 are counted in the outcome census above.
T. C. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
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Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
LUIS A. BERMUDEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DENNIS VICTOR DAY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LAAN CRUICKSHANK vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ROBERT J. SUGGS, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EDGAR ALBERTO ESTEVES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MICHAEL THORNTON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JONATHAN GABRIEL MORET vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MATTHEW BRADLEY JOHNSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
RAYMOND PAUL BAKER, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
HARRY DAYMON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAQUEL FLEMING vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
A. T. F. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
P. F. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MOSES A. MATHIS, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
A. M. S. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
R. M. B. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOEY BARNES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TERRANCE KEESEE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JERRY ANGLIN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JEREMY K. CLARK vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILLIAM B. LEWIS, SR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ANTHONY WILLIE BROOM VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DUSTIN DUANE BULLOCK vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DARIUS D. LEWIS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DAVID CHARLES HUGHES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MARCUS ANTONIO TRIBBITT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
OTIS MARTIN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ALONZO WIDEMAN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RICHARD EMMETT WALKER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LEONIDES NEGRON v. SABRINA BONILLA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
THOMAS DAVIS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WADSWORTH ALAN WHITEHEAD vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MILTON JEROME BATTLES VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JAMES MICHAEL BRADY VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEVEN MICHAEL LANE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SYLATHUM A. STREETER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SCOTT ALAN GNATT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TEDDY GATLIN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DUDLEY ELLIOTT VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JEFFREY ERICH BINDER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ULYSSES SMITH, SR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ALVIN FEW vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DAMIEN D. FREEMAN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BRANDON LAMAR GAGE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DALE L. ADAMSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STEVEN MICHAEL LANE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BRANDON LAMAR GAGE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GILES ELWYN ORCUTT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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