Roger J. McDonald
Senior Judge · Ninth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Senior Judge · Ninth Judicial Circuit Court
What applies in this courtroom
143 verified requirements govern practice before Judge Roger J. McDonald across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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No current assignment on record.
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).
This tab lists judge-and-division rules only, and this judge's division publishes its practice at the county, circuit, and statewide layers instead — 143 verified requirements still govern this courtroom. The Full Premium Report assembles every one of them, cited.
See all 143 in the Full Premium Report →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.
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No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 51 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (February 2, 2004–January 28, 2025) 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 51 are counted in the outcome census above.
ANDREW PEOPLES VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
No rule-level sources registered yet — judge-level provenance is listed in the Overview tab.
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No assignments on record.
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Branch v. Tomblin
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
Leon D. Hankins v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Williams v. Williams
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
John Richards v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Michael Cook v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Ryan Page v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Channing Madison v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
State v. Marc Diaz
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
State v. Mohammed Shaikh
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Jestin Cleveland v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Dorall Marshall v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Shannon Shaw v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Greenwich v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
John Richards v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Danny Taylor v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Earnest Mills v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Headley Edwards v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Louis Haskins v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Jermaine Reed v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Luis Torres v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Gregory Thompson v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Robert Young v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Terri Roberts v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
John Cooksey v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Robert Chin v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
William Graham v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
James Bullard v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Billy Lewis v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Antoine Summer v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Thomas Trowbridge v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Steven Spickerman v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Joseph Makoski v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
N.C. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Eric Hines v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
C.M.M. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
D.G.B. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Patrick Neel v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Larry Holmes v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
State v. E.D.R.
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
J.A.N. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
T.L.S. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
D.W.A. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
J.F. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
K.Q.W. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
M.W.H. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
R.T. v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Boyd v. Boyd
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
Daniel Ryan v. State
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
Encarnacion v. Encarnacion
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
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