Opinion ID: 1129349
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Heading: Error in Allowing Prosecutor to Represent the State at Evidentiary Hearing

Text: Finally, the trial court did not err in allowing the prosecutor who represented the State during Lamarca's trial to also represent the State at the evidentiary hearing even though the prosecutor knew he would be called as a witness at this hearing in regard to a Brady or Giglio claim. In Scott v. State, 717 So.2d 908, 910 (Fla.1998), this Court held that rule 4-3.7 of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar does not prohibit an attorney from acting as both an attorney and a witness where the state attorney was called as a witness for the other side on a Brady claim in a postconviction evidentiary hearing before a judge. Lamarca has not presented any evidence that the prosecutor went beyond what is authorized in Scott; therefore, we deny this claim.