Colarusso v. Colarusso

Petitioner Christopher Colarusso seeks a writ of prohibition preventing the trial judge from conducting further proceedings in the petitioner’s dissolution of marriage case. “A motion to recuse or disqualify a trial judge is legally sufficient when the alleged facts would create in a reasonably prudent person a well-founded fear of not receiving a fair and impartial trial.” Valdes-Fauli v. Valdes-Fauli, 903 So.2d 214, 216 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005). A review of the verified motion to disqualify demonstrates that it is legally sufficient. The judge’s decidedly negative commentary concerning his…