Case ID: so2d_771/html/1285-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Edgardo PEREZ, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. 3D00-3122.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Nov. 29, 2000.
    Levine & Finger and Jay L. Levine, Miami, for petitioner.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Jill K. Traína, Assistant Attorney General for respondent.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GERSTEN and GREEN, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Upon the holding that the statements made by the trial judge provide a well founded fear that the defendant would not receive a unbiased subsequent hearing, we conclude that the motion to disqualify him was erroneously denied. See Gonzalez v. Goldstein, 633 So.2d 1183 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994); Michaud-Berger v. Hurley, 607 So.2d 441 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992), review denied, 614 So.2d 503 (Fla.1993); Lamendola v. Grossman, 439 So.2d 960 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983). The application for a writ of prohibition precluding his further participation in the cause is granted.

Prohibition granted.