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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles S. RICHARD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 82-153.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    Feb. 9, 1983.
    James B. Gibson, Public Defender and Brynn Newton, Asst. Public Defender, Day-tona Beach, for appellant.
    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee and Sean Daly, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.
   COBB, Judge.

The trial court, relying on our opinion in Babb v. Edwards, 400 So.2d 1239 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981), denied the motion of the public defender to withdraw based upon a representation of conflict. Our decision subsequently was quashed in Babb v. Edwards, 412 So.2d 859 (Fla.1982). Given a conflict, we find that the denial of the motion to withdraw constitutes reversible error based upon the language of the United States Supreme Court in Holloway v. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 475, 98 S.Ct. 1173, 55 L.Ed.2d 426 (1978). See Foster v. State, 387 So.2d 344 (Fla.1980); Jones v. State, 423 So.2d 515 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982).

REVERSED and REMANDED FOR NEW TRIAL.

DAUKSCH and COWART, JJ., concur.