Robert Branning
Circuit Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Circuit Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
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811 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Robert Branning across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Administrative Judge — Lee County
Lee County Justice Center, 1700 Monroe Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Published forms & procedures: Judge Branning's Court Procedures; Judge Branning's Felony Plea Form; Judge Branning's Order of Pretrial Motions; Judge Branning's Zoom Rules of Court
Verified against Judge Robert Branning's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Division (official profile, verified 2026-07-19): Lee Criminal D 25%
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 Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Profile upgraded 2026-07-24: bio_url now points to this judge's own page (https://www.ca.cjis20.org/About-The-Court/jud_profile.aspx?judge=branning), confirmed to name them before extraction. The court publishes no biography paragraph for this judge. 4 linked form/procedure document(s) fetched and hashed.
3 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 811 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 92 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (February 10, 2017–August 4, 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 92 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 4, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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Joseph Zieler v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
LISA ANN LOBB vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
JAMES RICHARD YOUNG VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
MELVIN COVINGTON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
ULYSSES RIVERA, III VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
KEITH M. BRENNAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
OMARIO THOMAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
GREGORY MAKI AND ELIZABETH MAKI vs MULTIBANK 2009-1 RES ADC VENTURE, LLC
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
MARVIN HARRIS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MARVIN HARRIS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JONATHAN HARRIS MARIOTTI vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MICAH LYNN LAWSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STEVEN WILLIAMS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MARK ALLEN DOUGLAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
LIONEL DESMONZ BUCHANON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DENNIS LAMAR FLINT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILLIE MILES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MARK ALLEN DOUGLAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
MARK ALLEN DOUGLAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
JOHN FESH vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
CARLOS CANELA vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LADEDRICK HARRIS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
SHATEQUA FATIMA IANTHE ANDERSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JEREMY JAMAL MOORE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DEAN A. TREVIL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
FRANCISCO HENRIQUEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DAVID BAKER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LADEDRICK HARRIS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
JOHN S. SIMPSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LUIS ALFREDO ORTIZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CALVIN POWELL VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MARK S. BROWN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
PASCUAL M. RENTAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ERNEST ATKINS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WILLIAM E. JACOBS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CARLOS MANUEL VALDES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHRISTOPHER BOEHM vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CESAR CONTRERAS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ERNEST H. MAJOR v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
WILLIE J. FOUST, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ALFRED RHINER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CESAR A. CONTRERAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
HERSCHELL LEE UPSHAW VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SHEDDRICK JUBREE BROWN, JR. v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RUFINO OSORIO v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JOHN JOSEPH MC ENROE, IV vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EMERSON PINKNEY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LE' SHON ASHLEY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOSE RAUL PLASENCIA vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DALLAS R. BROOKS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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