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Circuit Judge · Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court
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320 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Teresa Dees across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Juvenile Division J (Dependency) — Manatee County; Early Childhood Court — Manatee
Circuit Criminal Felony V. AO 2026-05.4 renders the name "Teresa K. Dees".
Verified 2026-08-02: this circuit publishes NO judge portraits. The 1st's Sanity CMS judge documents carry no image field at all (38 checked via the content API), and the 12th's Judges page serves only a logo, an email-signature graphic and an Adobe button. The missing photo is 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 Second District Court of Appeal (St. Petersburg).
● LiveThat court's published bench (15): Andrea Teves Smith, Anthony K. Black, Craig C. Villanti, Daniel H. Sleet, Edward C. LaRose, J. Andrew Atkinson, John Guard, Matthew C. Lucas, Morris Silberman, Nelly Khouzam, Patricia J. Kelly, Robert Morris, Stevan T. Northcutt, Susan H. Rothstein-Youakim
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1 verified rule specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 320 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 82 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (February 21, 2018–July 22, 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 82 are counted in the outcome census above.
Wimmer v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 3, 2026
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Circuit Juvenile Division J (Dependency) — Manatee County; Early Childhood Court — Manateecurrent
date not recorded — present
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Trinidad-Antunez v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SIMEON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
T. W. vs T. H.
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Romine v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Pichardo v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
M. D. F/K/A M. M. VS T. T.
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
PIRTLE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Williams v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Sharp v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Clark v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WATTS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Wilcox v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WOOD, JR. v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Snyder v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
State of Florida v. Robinson
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
T. W. vs T. H.
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Trimarco v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ponder v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rahauiser v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
POLYAKOVICS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RAMOS v. RAMOS
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bell v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Non-Dispositive
DAY v. SELBY
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Villecco v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Figueredo-Ortega v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
R. W. VS L. L. AND B. L.
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
PARSLEY v. BOBALA
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LANEY v. LANEY
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Sawyers v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Johnson v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
THOMAS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Meranvil v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Woods v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MARTINEZ v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Smith v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Woods v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Sotomayer v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Reyes v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Vivas- Martinez v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Watkins v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Whitten v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Simmons v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Young v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Wandell v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Royster, Jr. v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Underwood v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rich v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ussery v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rowland v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Manatee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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