OFFICE OF CRIMINAL CONFLICT AND CIVIL REGIONAL COUNSEL, FIRST DISTRICT, PETITIONER,
v.
LEKRELL D. BRUNER, AND OFFICE OF THE STATE ATTORNEY, FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, RESPONDENTS

Fla. 1st DCA | 2009-10-20
No. 1D09-2594
KAHN and VAN NORTWICK, JJ., concur.
19 So. 3d 447 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2009) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
BARFIELD, J.

BARFIELD, J.

The Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel petitions this court for a writ of certiorari, challenging an order entered upon the circuit court’s appointment of this petitioner to represent a convicted *448felon in an evidentiary hearing under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. In appointing the petitioner, the circuit court declined to follow the precedent established in Deen v. Wilson, 1 So.3d 1179 (Fla. 5th DCA 2009), and improperly made the appointment in this collateral criminal proceeding without statutory authorization. That was a departure from the essential requirements of law, without an adequate remedy by later appeal, so as to warrant relief by certiorari. The petition is therefore granted, and the challenged order is quashed.

KAHN and VAN NORTWICK, JJ., concur.


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