PATTERSON v. RIVKIND

No. 95-1813.

672 So.2d 826 (1995)

Victor PATTERSON and The Office of the Public Defender for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Leonard RIVKIND, Chief Judge of Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, and The Administrative Judge and Other Judges of the Domestic Violence Department, as acting Circuit Judges for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, in and for Dade County, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 25, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Manuel Alvarez, Assistant Public Defender, for petitioners.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Michael J. Neimand, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, BASKIN and GODERICH, JJ.


ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION

BASKIN, Judge.

Victor Patterson [Petitioner] seeks a writ of mandamus and a writ of prohibition to prevent respondents, county court judges appointed to the Domestic Violence Department of the Family Division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court [Department], from hearing domestic violence injunction cases. Petitioner is represented by the Office of the Public Defender in two cases assigned to the Department....

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