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Robert W. Hodges
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 Robert W. Hodges across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Judge — Marion County
From Judge Robert W. Hodges'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).
Enriched from live circuit5.org profile + controlling assignment order (independently fetched and sha256-hashed 2026-07-20; 5th Circuit arbitrated upgrade).
7 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.
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.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 155 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (February 22, 2010–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 155 are counted in the outcome census above.
Jason O'Shea Young v. State of Florida
last checked September 4, 2026
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Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Jose Juan Pagan, Jr. v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ALLEN LAMAR STAFFORD, III VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JACOB MICHAEL BARTON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Darwin J. Fifield, Sr. v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DAVID CARL BRIDE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Cordale Lamont Dempsey v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JACOB MICHAEL BARTON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
James Elton Roberts v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
NATHAN COX VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ORVAL YARGER vs CONVERGENCE AVIATION LTD
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Joe Nathanial Williams v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SERGIO GUNSBY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAMES DELOJAN JENKINS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Erik Garcia v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Calimino Woods v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Colangelo v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
KAREN L. DENNEHY vs VISHWANATH SRINAGESH, OCALA EYE, P.A., AND OCALA EYE SURGICAL CENTER, INC.
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
EUGENE CHARLES KNIGHT, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ALTON WILKERSON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Catalin Chirazi v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHRISTOPHER DELRUSSO VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Eugene Charles Knight, Jr. v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
David Carl Bride v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Terry Amos Robinson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brandon Jamell Kiner v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Reavis Kendrick v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JOSE GUADALUPE HERRERA vs JESSICA DARLENE KEA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Buddy Tilman Watson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Darrin Galloway v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Mary Elizabeth Dauber v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
STEVEN CARO VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
AMANDA MOSES-BASNEY VS PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Arthur James High, Sr. v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Timothy Lamack Munnerlyn v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Kenyada Maurice Thompson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Lamar Lee Maddox v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kenneth Michael Wilkerson, II v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
James Andrew Davis v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ROBERT KEITH GRAHAM VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Justin McCullough v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Dylan Thomas Roberts v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Mac Vernel Sessler v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kendall Corey Dustin Blyden v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Tyrone Cummings v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Shane Patrick Weaver v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
JACOB MICHAEL BARTON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brandon Merizier v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SEARRON N. BROOKS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CEDRIC J. JONES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Marion County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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