HARRY K. SINGLETARY, JR., SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, APPELLANT,

v.

JOSEPH W. TATOL, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (12 total)

• Martin v. State, 804 So. 2d 360 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001)
  …ruling, regardless of any evidence or argument to the contrary, is the paradigm of judicial bias and prejudice. We could not imagine a more telling basis for a party to fear that he will not receive a fair hearing. Id. at 1184. In Torres v. State, 697 So. 2d 175 (Fla. 4th DCA), rev. denied, 703 So. 2d 477 (Fla.1997), this court granted a petition for writ of prohibition after Judge Goldstein commented in yet another proceeding that he would never sentence a defendant to. time served on a violation of probat…
• Jaynee Adinolfe v. Adinolfe, 718 So. 2d 369 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998)
  …judge’s comments were made. See Pressey v. State, 710 So. 2d 688 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998). There still exist those situations that may require recusal simply based upon the factual scenario presented and the judge’s comments stated. See Torres v. State, 697 So. 2d 175 (Fla. 4th DCA), rev. denied, 703 So. 2d 477 (Fla.1997); Gonzalez v. Goldstein, 633 So. 2d 1183 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994). We are unwilling, however, to condemn a judge’s comments and require recu-sal when the context of those comments may very well lead t…
• State v. Ambrose Dixon and Johan Matienzo, 217 So. 3d 1115 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017)
  …obation invariably follow any jail or prison sentence that the judge would impose, the motion to disqualify the trial judge was found by the appellate court to be legally sufficient and should have been granted. Id. at 364; see also Torres v. State, 697 So. 2d 175, 177 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997) (concluding that the judge’s announced policy that no probation violator would be sentenced to time served constituted legally sufficient grounds for disqualification because the policy personally affected Torres and placed…

Authorities Cited

• State v. Harrell Braddy, 687 So. 2d 1338 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997)