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Bernard MONTGOMERY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. 4D14-3522.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Nov. 19, 2014.
    Antony P. Ryan,. Regional Counsel Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Fourth District, and Melanie L. Casper, Assistant Regional Counsel, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
    Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Monique Rolla, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

The defendant petitions for a writ of prohibition following the circuit judge’s denial of the defendant’s motion to disqualify the judge. Based on our review of the petition and motion, we issued an order to the state to show cause why we should not grant the petition. The state candidly has responded that it can find no such cause. We conclude the petition has merit and grant the petition. See Gore v. State, 96.4 So.2d 1257, 1268 (Fla.2007) (“The standard for determining the legal sufficiency of a motion to disqualify is whether the facts alleged, which must be assumed to be true, would cause the movant to have a well-founded fear that he or she will not receive a fair trial at the hands of that judge.”). The defendant’s cases shall be re-assigned to another circuit judge.

Petition granted.

TAYLOR, GERBER and FORST, JJ., concur.