Michael P. McDaniel
Circuit Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
Circuit Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
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317 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Michael P. McDaniel across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Juvenile Delinquency Sec J2 — 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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5 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 317 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. 6 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 95 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (December 19, 2018–July 28, 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 95 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 3, 2026
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3 verbatim requirements on deadlines.
KEONTAY BAKER VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ALEK L. NEWPORT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
QORNEILOUS MARQUEL CAMPBELL VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
CLINT J. PAYNE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DARYL J. MC CLELLAND vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILLIAM NEIL BURNETT, I I I VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
EMELI BURGOS-DELVALLE v. PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
OMARION TAYLOR VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
NOBERTO CASTRO VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ROBERT E. ROBBINS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
KIRK R. BUNKE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MARSHALL HAYES VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CALVIN JERMAINE MCKINNEY VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DONALD BERNARD REID VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
VICTOR MUNOZ VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BRUCE L. CARR VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RODNEY J. WHITE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
COURTNEY STEPHENS A/K/A COURTNEY C. STEPHENS AND VALERIE G. STEPHENS VS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/ K/ A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
COREY HENDERSON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
TERRY LEE FRANKLIN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RASHAD DOMINIC BATTLES VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
COREY WESLEY JONES VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WALTER HEATH VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DERRICK LAMAR ADAMS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
TEDDY GATLIN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
REX YENTES AND ANN YENTES VS XENOFON PAPADOPOULOS, M.D., AND BOND & STEELE CLINIC, P. A., D/B/A
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MARC JOHN PERCY COX VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SOMALY AING v. BUN HUOT TAO
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MARIE F. HAMMOND AND BRAD W. HAMMOND VS PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS, INC.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
NANCY ANN NORWOOD VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RONALD STIDHAM VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DWAYNE ROWLAND VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
REYNALDO LYNN WASHINGTON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ROBERT BRYANT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
NAIM ANDERSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHALDSON SANON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
FRANKIE JACKSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JIMMIE RUSH vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EDWIN JAVIER COLON-VAZQUEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JIMMY S. FLOWERS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JEREMIAH AARON SANE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
GABRIEL PERADA vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LAWRENCE YOUNGMAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
RENE CHAVERA vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MICHAEL BALTICH vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAMES THOMAS MARLEY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
MARK E. TERRELL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ERROL D. BROOKS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAMES E. FOSTER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAVIER ARGAEZ - CARRILLO vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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