Case Name: Pierre DOMVILLE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2013-01-16
Citations: 125 So. 3d 178
Docket Number: No. 4D12-556
Parties: Pierre DOMVILLE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: GROSS and LEVINE, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 125
Pages: 178–180

Head Matter:
Pierre DOMVILLE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 4D12-556.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Jan. 16, 2013.
Denzle G. Latty, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent.

Opinion:
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING AND MOTION FOR CERTIFICATION
PER CURIAM.
We deny the motion for rehearing but grant the motion for certification. Pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.030(a)(2)(A)(v), we certify the following to be a question of great public importance:
Where the presiding judge in a criminal case has accepted the prosecutor assigned to the case as a Facebook "Mend," would a reasonably prudent person fear that he could not get a fair and impartial trial, so that the defendant's motion for disqualification should be granted?
GROSS and LEVINE, JJ., concur.
GROSS, J. concurs specially with opinion.
GERBER, J., concurs in part and dissents in part, with opinion.