Case ID: so3d_133/html/1246-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Stewart LILKER, Petitioner, v. Jackson “Jack” P. BERRY, Respondent.
    No. 1D13-5641.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    March 24, 2014.
    Stewart Lilker, pro se, Petitioner.
    Charles B. Lembcke of the Law Office of Charles B. Lembcke, P.A., Jacksonville, for Respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

By petition for writ of prohibition, petitioner Stewart Lilker seeks review of the lower tribunal’s order denying petitioner’s motion for disqualification. We have jurisdiction. See, e.g., Lusskin v. State, 717 So.2d 1076, 1077 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998).

Upon review, we find that the motion for disqualification was timely and legally sufficient. The petition is therefore granted and the trial judge is directed to enter an order of disqualification which requests the chief circuit judge to appoint a successor judge.

PADOVANO and ROBERTS, JJ., concur.

BENTON, J., dissents.