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NIXON v. SIEGEL

No. 93-37.

626 So.2d 1024 (1993)

Lavell NIXON, and Bennett H. Brummer, as Public Defenders of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Paul SIEGEL, as Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida in and for Dade County, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 9, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Louis Campbell, Asst. Public Defender, for petitioners.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Richard S. Fechter, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Before NESBITT, FERGUSON and COPE, JJ.

FERGUSON, Judge.

Nixon seeks an order, by petition for extraordinary relief, that the public defender's office be allowed to withdraw from representing him based on its certification of conflict of interest. We treat the petition for writ of mandamus as certiorari and quash the order denying the request for withdrawal.

The petitioner, charged with three violent felonies, was appointed an assistant public defender who was allowed to withdraw based on a certification...

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