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STEWART v. DOUGLAS

No. 92-33.

597 So.2d 381 (1992)

Charles E. STEWART, Jr., Petitioner, v. Judge E. Vernon DOUGLAS, as Circuit Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit and Thomas S. Tramel, III, as Sheriff of Columbia County, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 15, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen N. Bernstein and Laura A. Gross, Gainesville, for petitioner.

W. Roderick Bowdoin of Darby, Peele, Bowdoin & Payne, Lake City, for respondent Thomas S. Tramel, III, as Sheriff of Columbia County.

No appearance for respondent E. Vernon Douglas.

PER CURIAM.

Charles E. Stewart, Jr., petitions this court for a writ of prohibition, contending that Judge E. Vernon Douglas should have granted a motion for his disqualification and that in denying the motion, Judge Douglas improperly passed on the truth of the facts alleged. We agree in part and grant the petition.

Judge Douglas is presiding over an action brought by the Sheriff of Columbia County, who seeks forfeiture of certain real and personal property...

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