District Court of Appeal of Florida

A petition for prohibition seeking disqualification of a trial judge assigned to preside over petitioner's criminal case as a result of certain remarks the judge made in a previous, unrelated criminal case is granted where petitioner's allegation -- that the trial judge told him if he ever returned to the court with new criminal charges, he would be sent to detention -- was legally sufficient to support a motion for disqualification.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/29/2006
• Published 11/29/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald B. Smith of the Law Office of Glenn J. Sneider, L.C., Okeechobee, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Charles M. Fahlbusch, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, and Don M. Rogers, Assistant Attorneys General, West Palm Beach, for respondent.