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Circuit Judge · Fourth Judicial Circuit Court
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1,748 verified requirements and 8 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Steven B. Whittington across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit — Division A (Clay)
Courtroom/hearing room Procedures
From the circuit's own Circuit and County Judges table, verified 2026-07-25.
Verified 2026-08-03: jud4.org publishes no judge portraits — the roster is a text table and the biographies page carries no judge photos. 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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4 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 1,748 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. 8 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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Use the live case-law search below to see what exists for this judge today.
How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 298 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (September 14, 2016–July 30, 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 298 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 4, 2026
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DENNIS LONG VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Cypress Property & Casualty Insurance Company vs Empire Mitigation Restoration and Consulting, LLC a/a/o Steve Wexler and Paula Wexler
First District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
DELVIN JONES VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DENNIS LONG VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
DENNIS LONG VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Paul Thomas Kartsonis vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Floyd William Damren v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
Torey Jenkins v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jason Jody Lull v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ja'Cari Anderson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Cornelius C. Walston v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GEORGE WASHINGTON SAMANIEGO A/K/A GEORGE W. SAMANIEGO, AND SILVIA J. SAMANIEGO VS DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC.,
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Adam M. Mutchler v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ryan Lee Scheurman v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Felix Luis Cuevas Rodriguez vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Anthony Jones vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Zakariya Daud Clarke v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANDREW ELSWICK VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Andrew Elswick v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Anthony Dale Carter vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Deborah Deanne Hatcher v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
David John Kaiser VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Christopher Steven Lutgens v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
JENNIFER STAMM ALDER VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
RODNEY THOMAS TERNOVSKY VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Minor Catledge v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Jesmeil Dion Scott v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Christopher Whiten v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Gary Doughten vs Jan Haskell
First District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jack Bledsoe, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph Bledsoe, Jack Bledsoe, III a/k/a Jack Bledsoe, and Christopher Caviness vs The Bank of New York Mellon, f/k/a The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificate Holders CWABS, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-23, Unknown Heirs of Joseph M. Bledsoe a/k/a
First District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Michael Ray Haim vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Film Funding Alliance, LTD. and Film Fund, Inc. vs Fox Rothschild, LLP
First District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Joseph Walker vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOHN KOHL, III VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Garcia v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Evelyn Rytelewski v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kyle Lee Keith Randelston v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Thi Vuong Nghi Nguyen v. Doan Ng Pham
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Richard Colin Colson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Walter H. Cary III vs State of Florida, Deputy Stacy, and Deputy Harwood
First District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Robert H. Myers III vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ANTHONY DELANE WASHINGTON VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Connor Gabriel Malinis v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Samuel Keith Carpenter v. Derek Newman and Melissa Newman
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Frandy Andre vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Samuel Keith Carpenter vs Derek Newman and Melissa Newman
First District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Alan G. Williams, Individually, and Alan G. Williams, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Carl E. Williams v. Pace Island Owners Association, Inc.
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Timothy Floyd v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jerry L. Jackson, III v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kelly Pillsbury vs Stephen Laiacona
First District Court of Appeal · Clay County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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