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J. Layne Smith
Circuit Judge · Second Judicial Circuit Court · Wakulla County, Florida
High confidence· verified September 14, 2026
- verified requirements
- 19
- verified requirements
- rule deadlines
- 6
- rule deadlines
- sources cited
- 3
- sources cited
- reviewed insights
- 0
- reviewed insights
- verified rulings
- 0
- verified rulings
Verification profile
- High · 19
- Medium · 0
- Low · 0
- Unverified · 0
Report generated October 25, 2026 · benchpath.ai/reports/judge/j-layne-smith
01 Division & assignment
All Wakulla circuit criminal, civil, family, probate, guardianship + specified appeals
Chambers & practice notes
- Judicial assistant
- Deanna Gravius
- Prior record
- JA: Deanna Gravius
Verified against Judge J. Layne Smith's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
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.
02 Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan
Live case-type intelligence scan
● LiveAnswer three quick questions. The platform pulls J. Layne Smith's full public case-law record from the source, newest first — your matter never narrows the pull; it directs the relevance ranking and the dual-AI analysis. Every hit comes back Bluebook-cited with the opinion's own words quoted verbatim. The scan takes the time precision takes.
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Case-law search
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03 Division intelligence
Appellate exposure
Appeals from this courtroom go to the First District Court of Appeal (Tallahassee).
● LiveThat court's published bench (13): Joseph Lewis, Jr., L. Clayton Roberts, Lance E. Neff, Lori S. Rowe, M. Kemmerly Thomas, Rachel E. Nordby, Raymond F. Treadwell, Robert E. Long, Jr., Ross L. Bilbrey, Stephanie W. Ray, Susan L. Kelsey, Thomas D. Winokur, Timothy D. Osterhaus
04 Appellate record (87)
05 Procedural requirements (19)
06 Deadline table
07 Ruling intelligence
No verified ruling summary yet — summaries publish only after human review of a real opinion/docket corpus. The live scan at the top of this report covers what public sources hold today.
08 Source appendix (3)
- 2nd Circuit — Judge manuals, forms & procedures (circuit)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- 2nd Circuit — Administrative Orders page (adminOrders.php; the AOs/ directory index is forbidden by design)Healthychecked September 14, 2026
- Florida Rules of Court Procedure — The Florida Bar rules index (floridabar.org/rules/ctproc/)Healthychecked October 22, 2026
09 Recent change events
- October 12, 2026Monitor detected a source-content or hash-basis change. Review the archived bytes before republishing dependent material.
- October 9, 2026Monitor detected a source-content or hash-basis change. Review the archived bytes before republishing dependent material.
- September 16, 2026Monitor detected a source-content or hash-basis change. Review the archived bytes before republishing dependent material.
- September 9, 2026Monitor could not safely verify the registered source.
- August 31, 2026Monitor detected a source-content or hash-basis change. Review the archived bytes before republishing dependent material.
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This report compiles procedural information and public-record research from the official sources cited above, with per-item verification status. It is not legal advice, contains no outcome predictions, is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney, and creates no attorney–client relationship. Items below high confidence must be verified against the official source before relying on them. Print with your browser for a clean PDF.