Hitchcock v. Proudfoot Consulting Co.

Petitioner F. Steven Hitchcock seeks certiorari review of an order adopting a special magistrate’s denial of petitioner’s renewed motion for protective order and granting a motion to compel deposition answers, overruling petitioner’s claim of Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

We grant this petition and quash the order in this case because the record be fore us demonstrates that petitioner was presented at deposition with questions which might provide a foundation for a possible criminal prosecution for the unauthorized practice of law. DeLisi v. Bankers Ins. Co., 436 So.2d…