DANIEL D. SANTIAGO, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Cadejuste v. State, 993 So. 2d 122 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008)
  …e and his co-defendant. The Office of the Public Defender of a given circuit is considered to be a “firm” for “purposes of construing the disciplinary rules governing conflicting interests of clients and imputed disqualification.” Toneatti v. State, 805 So. 2d 112, 114 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002) (public defender’s joint representation of co-defendants raises a potential conflict which should have put the court on notice to conduct an inquiry into the conflict prior to trial to determine whether conflict-free counsel…
• Auxier v. Jerome Golden Ctr. FOR Behavioral Health & Alpert Jewish Fam. & Child. Servs., 85 So. 3d 1164 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012)
  …§ 744.3725(1), Fla. Stat. (2011). As this court has recognized in another context, the “guarantee of the assistance of counsel includes the right to counsel whose loyalty is not divided between clients with conflicting interests.” Toneatti v. State, 805 So. 2d 112, 114 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002). Although Handley v. Dennis, 642 So. 2d 115, 116-18 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994), addresses issues beyond the scope of this petition, we agree with the First District’s discussion of the role of the public defender in Baker Act proc…
• Americo Antonio Colon v. State, 907 So. 2d 1267 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005)
  …ir.2003). The right to counsel includes the right to having a plea offer communicated. Cottle v. State, 733 So. 2d 963 (Fla.1999). The right to effective counsel also includes the right to have counsel free from ethical conflicts. Toneatti v. State, 805 So. 2d 112, 113 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002). In this case, Colon’s argument is effectively that he had no attorney present on his behalf at the time of the arraignment, and that even if the public defender’s office had represented him, it had a conflict because it re…