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 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

Judicial Circuit Need 2006-2010 By County

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 Court

has been Up an Average 8.3% per year over last five years

∆‘05 to ‘09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09

∆‘08 to ∆‘09

Circuit Criminal - Lee 71.2% 15.9% -12.0%

Circuit Criminal – Collier

-22.3% -5.9% -15.3%

Circuit Criminal - Charlotte

28.9% 7.5% -14.9%

Circuit Criminal – Hendry

76.1% 16.4% -4.2%

Circuit Criminal – Glades

126.3% 24.6% 41.3%

Circuit Crim. – circuitwide

33.9% 8.3% -11.8%

20th Circuit – Circuit Criminal Court

has increased 34% since 2005

20th Circuit – Circuit Civil Courthas been Up an Average 61.4% per year over

last five years

∆‘05 to ‘09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09

∆‘08 to ∆‘09

Circuit Civil - Lee 70.5% 479.4% 9.7%

Circuit Civil – Collier 59.6% 405.2% 30.4%

Circuit Civil – Charlotte

40.4% 211.5% 19.1%

Circuit Civil – Hendry

23.5% 125.7% 14.1%

Circuit Civil – Glades 14.8% 56.3% -3.8%

Circuit Civil – circuitwide

61.4% 396.3% 14.8%

20th Circuit – Circuit Civil Courthas increased 396% since 2005

20th Circuit – Unified Family Court

has been Up an Average 2.9% per year over last five years

∆‘05 to ’09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09

∆‘08 to ∆‘09

UFC – Lee -0.5% 0.1% -8.0%

UFC – Collier -12.4% -3.2% -6.4%

UFC – Charlotte 18.3% 5.2% -11.2%

UFC – Hendry -10.4% -2.0% 4.9%

UFC – Glades -16.3% -2.7% -28.4%

UFC – circuitwide 11.6% 2.9% 4.5%

20th Circuit – Unified Family Court

has increased 12% since 2005

20th Circuit - Probate Court has been Down an Average 10.8% per year

over last five years

∆‘05 to ’09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09

∆‘08 to ∆‘09

Probate Court – Lee -47.9% -14.8% -9.1%

Probate Court – Collier

-8.6% -2.2% -1.9%

Probate Court – Charlotte

-42.5% -12.8% -11.0%

Probate Court – Hendry

-25.8% -5.7% -25.4%

Probate Court – Glades

-5.4% 4.1% -39.7%

Circuit Prob. – circuitwide

-37.1% -10.8% -5.3%

20th Circuit – Probate Courthas decreased 5% since 2008