Case Name: Kenneth CROWE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-11-14
Citations: 701 So. 2d 431
Docket Number: No. 97-2426
Parties: Kenneth CROWE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: HARRIS, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 701
Pages: 431–432

Head Matter:
Kenneth CROWE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 97-2426.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Nov. 14, 1997.
Joseph W. DuRocher, Public Defender, and Patricia A. Cashman, Assistant Public Defender, Orlando, for Petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth,' Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carmen F. Corrente, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Respondent.

Opinion:
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
ANTOON, Judge.
We grant the public defender's petition for certiorari and quash the trial court's order denying the public defender's motion to withdraw from its representation of the defendant. In its motion to withdraw, the public defender certified that it was required to withdraw because its office had earlier represented the victim of the defendant's crime and that adverse and hostile interests existed between the defendant and the victim. The trial court was required to grant the motion to withdraw without reweighing the facts giving rise to the public defender's determination that a conflict existed. See Guzman v. State, 644 So.2d 996 (Fla.1994).
Petition for Writ of Certiorari GRANTED; order QUASHED.
HARRIS, J., concurs.
DAUKSCH, J., concurs specially, with opinion.