KERSAINT v. STATE

No. 3D09-543.

15 So.3d 41 (2009)

Robenson KERSAINT, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 20, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rasco, Klock, Reininger, Perez, Esquenazi, Vigil & Nieto and Joseph P. Klock, Jr., Coral Gables, for petitioner.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Magaly Rodriguez, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Before COPE, SHEPHERD, and SUAREZ, JJ.


COPE, J.

Because the trial judge should have disqualified himself, we grant the petition for writ of prohibition.

Defendant-petitioner, Robenson Kersaint, was charged with drug trafficking. The jury found the defendant guilty of the lesser included charge of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.

For present purposes, we accept as true the facts stated in the sworn motion to disqualify. After the...

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