Peter M. Brigham
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 Peter M. Brigham across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Judge — Marion County
From Judge Peter M. Brigham'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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2 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.
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 118 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (December 26, 2018–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 118 are counted in the outcome census above.
K.D., MOTHER OF B.C., A CHILD vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
last checked September 3, 2026
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Fifth District Court of Appeal · Citrus County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CARLOS ROJAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
NEIL JOSEPH GILLESPIE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Daryl Keith Burns v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHRISTOPHER TAKHVAR vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Carlos Flores-Renteria v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Gerard Jamar Mann v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Timothy F. Byrne v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Deverious Jackson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
J.P., MOTHER OF I.C., A CHILD vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Citrus County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MARKEY MORRISON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Frederick Hamilton v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
K.D., MOTHER OF B.S.C., A CHILD vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Citrus County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Thomas Leroy McGhee, III v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Joshua C. Conn v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
TIMMOTHY A ZEIGLER VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Andre Allan Scott v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Patrick Jordan v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brian Carl Vanepps v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MARQUIS DOUGLAS PRITCHETT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MARCELLUS J.B. CHARLEMAGNE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Joshua Mateos v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Carlos J. Davis v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Samuel Kirby Berry v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GREGORY HUNTER VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ismael Rivera Rodriguez v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Haley Grace Kuttner v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
TYRELL JMAR WHITE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Adrian Winters v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bryan Aponte v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Samuel Kirby Berry v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kentrai Patterson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEPHEN D. LYNN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
AUSTIN DAKOTA FREEMAN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robert J. Perry v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHRISTOPHER CHARLES STEVENSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
THOMAS MCGHEE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MIKER TYRONE DEBOSE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Dejaune McDonald v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ROBERT EDWARD VAN WINKLE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Gerard Mann v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Kevin Ernest v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WILLIAM MICHAEL KOPSHO VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MATTHEW PENDARVIS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Anjuan J. Everett v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Harold E. Huff v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Vicente Reyes-Gonzalez v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Joshua Vining v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
K.D., MOTHER OF B.C., A CHILD vs DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Citrus County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Kasean H. Gray v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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