BRAYNEN v. STATE

No. 4D04-3673.

895 So.2d 1169 (2005)

Lawrence F. BRAYNEN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, and Diane M. Cuddihy, Chief Assistant Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

Lawrence Braynen petitions for writ of prohibition seeking to disqualify circuit judge Cheryl Aleman from presiding over his criminal prosecution. The grounds asserted for disqualification were that one of Braynen's attorneys, Sandra Perlman, was on the steering committee for Judge Aleman's opponent in a contested judicial race.

Attached to the motion to disqualify in the circuit court was a campaign letter supporting the judge's opponent; Perlman...

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