VALCOM DRIVER LEASING, INC., APPELLANT,

v.

TOM WEST, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Flavio Santisteban v. State, 72 So. 3d 187 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011)
  …motion to disqualify the trial judge was legally insufficient where the same judge was presiding over his dependency case, and the defendant did not allege that the judge made any comments or rulings suggesting bias in that case. See Scott v. State, 909 So. 2d 364, 367-68 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005). Appellant failed to allege any objectively reasonable fear of judicial bias. The mere fact that Judge Streitfeld made an adverse ruling in a related civil case on a threshold issue of whether the plaintiff in that case…
• Erlinger v. Federico, 242 So. 3d 1177 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018)
  …ar that he or she will not receive a fair trial at the hands of that judge.” Parker v. State, 3 So. 3d 974, 982 (Fla. 2009). A motion to disqualify must contain facts “germane to the judge’s undue bias, prejudice, or sympathy.” Scott v. State, 909 So. 2d 364, 367 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005). General and speculative assertions about a judge’s attitude will not warrant relief. Kraczuk v. State, 92 So. 3d 195, 201 (Fla. 2012). Further, “the standards for disqualification do not turn on a demonstration of act…
• Kramer v. State, 970 So. 2d 468 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007)
  …lishes the best policy for sentencing at this time, or whether a defendant who wishes to assure a specific judge at a delayed sentencing hearing following a plea should be required to condition the plea expressly on that right. . In Scott v. State, 909 So. 2d 364, 369 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005), the Fifth District posited that if rule 3.700(c)(1) applied in a probation revocation context, a violation of the rule should be preserved by a contemporaneous objection and not by a later motion filed pursuant to rule 3.80…

Authorities Cited

• Wasser v. Sasoni, 652 So. 2d 411 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995)