TAYLOR v. CARLISLE

No. 90-1135.

566 So.2d 576 (1990)

Charles TAYLOR, Petitioner, v. James T. CARLISLE, Harold J. Cohen and Walter N. Colbath, As Circuit Appeals Panel for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County, Florida, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied September 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Cherry Grant, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Carol Cobourn Asbury, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondents.


PER CURIAM.

We grant the petition for writ of certiorari, or in the alternative, writ of mandamus. Our attention is first directed to the question of which remedy is appropriate, where the circuit court, acting in its appellate capacity, denied petitioner's request for privately appointed appellate counsel upon the public defender's withdrawal for conflict. While certiorari would certainly be an appropriate remedy, in this instance mandamus may also apply, with the...

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