STATE OF FLORIDA v. JOHN CHAPMAN

The State’s petition for writ of prohibition is granted. See State v. Lopez, 219 So.3d 865 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017). The trial court’s order precluding death as a possible punishment and precluding the State from death-qualifying the jury is quashed. See State v. Jones, 209 So.3d 6 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016) (granting prohibition and quashing a trial court’s pretrial order precluding the death penalty); see also State v. Bloom, 497 So.2d 2, 3 (Fla. 1986) (“A writ of prohibition is the appropriate remedy when a trial court attempts to interfere with the prosecutorial discretion of a state attorney.”).

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