Opinion

Brown v. State

  • 9 Fla. L. Weekly 1872
  • 455 So. 2d 583
  • 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 14935
Court
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Filed
Aug 30, 1984
Status
Published
On the bench
Cowart, Dauksch, Sharp
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 49.4%

other members of a state attorney's office are not disqualified from prosecuting a criminal case merely because one prosecuting attorney in the office is the alleged victim and a State's witness in the case

How later courts described this case

  • other members of a state attorney's office are not disqualified from prosecuting a criminal case merely because one prosecuting attorney in the office is the alleged victim and a State's witness in the case
  • other members of a State Attorney's Office not disqualified from prosecuting a criminal case merely because one prosecuting attorney in the office is the alleged victim and a State's witness in the case

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

PER CURIAM.

The other members of a state attorney’s office are not disqualified from prosecuting *584 a criminal case merely because one prosecuting attorney in the office is the alleged victim and a State’s witness in the case. See Clausell v. State, 455 So.2d 1050 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984). See also State ex rel. Oldham v. Aulls, 408 So.2d 587 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981); Thompson v. State, 246 So.2d 760 (Fla.1971); United States v. Caggiano, Baszner, and Winfield, 660 F.2d 184 (6th Cir.1981), cert. denied, Winfield v. United States, 454 U.S. 1149 , 102 S.Ct. 1015 , 71 L.Ed.2d 303 , cert. denied, Braszner v. United States, 455 U.S. 945 , 102 S.Ct. 1444 , 71 L.Ed.2d 658 (1982).

AFFIRMED.

SHARP and COWART, JJ., concur.

DAUKSCH, J., concurs specially with opinion.

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