STATE v. BORREGO

No. 3D12-2988.

105 So.3d 616 (2013)

The STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Radames BORREGO, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

January 16, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Timothy R.M. Thomas , Assistant Attorney General, for petitioner.

Carlos J. Martinez , Public Defender, and John E. Morrison , Assistant Public Defender, for respondent.

Before ROTHENBERG, EMAS and LOGUE, JJ.


ROTHENBERG, J.

"Every litigant, including the State in criminal cases, is entitled to nothing less than the cold neutrality of an impartial judge." It is the duty of courts to scrupulously guard this right of the litigant and to refrain from attempting to exercise jurisdiction in any matter where his qualification to do so is seriously brought into question. The exercise of any other policy tends to discredit and place...

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