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STATEWIDE GAL v. OFFICE OF STATE ATTORNEY

No. 2D10-3642.

55 So.3d 747 (2011)

STATEWIDE GUARDIAN AD LITEM OFFICE, Petitioner, v. OFFICE OF the STATE ATTORNEY TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 18, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly Schaeffer , Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office, Tavares, for Petitioner.

Steven Maresca and Deborah J. Cunningham , Assistant State Attorneys, Naples, for Respondent.

ALTENBERND, Judge.

The Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office (the Statewide GAL) seeks certiorari review of numerous orders denying motions to discharge the Guardian ad Litem Program in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit from serving as guardians ad litem in certain criminal proceedings. Reluctantly, we must agree that the circuit court has no authority to compel the relatively new Statewide GAL, which is not a program of the judicial branch, to provide guardians in these...

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