Case Name: Joecephus Devin LaFLEUR, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2015-02-27
Citations: 159 So. 3d 247
Docket Number: No. 5D13-4343
Parties: Joecephus Devin LaFLEUR, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: EVANDER, BERGER and WALLIS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 159
Pages: 247–247

Head Matter:
Joecephus Devin LaFLEUR, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 5D13-4343.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Feb. 27, 2015.
Kepler B. Funk, Keith F. Szachacz, and Alan S. Diamond, of Funk, Szachacz & Diamond, LLC., Melbourne, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Bonnie Jean Parrish, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED. See Jones v. State, 449 So.2d 253, 259 (Fla.1984) ("[T]he right to appointed counsel, like the obverse right to self-representation, is not a license to abuse the dignity of the court or to frustrate orderly proceedings, and a defendant may not manipulate the proceedings by willy-nilly leaping back and forth between the choices.").
EVANDER, BERGER and WALLIS, JJ., concur.
. Although it was error for the trial court to require LaFleur to present his request for self-representation in writing, see, e.g., Combs v. State, 133 So.3d 564, 566 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014), the error was harmless where LaFleur subsequently made his request in a written motion, and the trial court held a hearing on the motion.