MEGGS v. McCLURE

No. 88-2658.

538 So.2d 518 (1989)

Honorable William MEGGS, State Attorney In and for the SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Charles McCLURE, as Circuit Court Judge, Second Judicial Circuit of Florida, and Lloyd Boyd Wolfe, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied March 10, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Richard E. Doran, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Harold S. Richmond and Andrew Thomas, Quincy and Charles D. McClure, Judge, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for respondents.


SMITH, Chief Judge.

William Meggs petitions for a writ of certiorari to review an order from the circuit court disqualifying Meggs and the entire office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit from prosecuting Lloyd Boyd Wolfe, who has been indicted for second degree murder. Finding that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law, we grant the petition and quash the order.

Lloyd Boyd Wolfe was charged by information with...

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