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Court Trends - 2009 20 th Circuit and County Cases and Judicial Needs. Total Circuit Court Filings Increased 71.7% since 2005. Total County Court Filings Increased 49.0% since 2005. Certified Judicial Need.
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Court Trends - 2009 20thCircuit and County Cases and Judicial Needs
Certified Judicial Need The Judicial Resource Study is used to measure the Workload of Trial Court Judges (http://www.flcourts.org) by providing a weight to each case filing. Certified Judge need is number Judges needed to handle 100% of weighted filings The State of Florida for FY 2010-11 has a Certified Judge Need of 33.9 additional Circuit Judges and 48.5 additional County Judges The 20th Judicial Circuit for FY 2010-11 has a Certified Judge Need of 3.8 additional Circuit Judges and 3.5 additional County Judges
Current Delphi Judge Need & Judge Allocations By County–Present Status
Total Court Filings by Division Total Increase 55.4% since 2005
20th Circuit – Circuit Criminal Courthas been Up an Average 8.3% per year over last five years
20th Circuit – Circuit Criminal Courthas increased 34% since 2005
20th Circuit – Circuit Civil Courthas been Up an Average 61.4% per year over last five years
20th Circuit – Circuit Civil Courthas increased 396% since 2005
20th Circuit – Unified Family Courthas been Up an Average 2.9% per year over last five years
20th Circuit – Unified Family Courthas increased 12% since 2005
20th Circuit - Probate Court has been Down an Average 10.8% per year over last five years