Legal Opinion
Deen v. Wilson
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided January 30, 2009No. 5D08-3489, 5D08-3490, 5D08-3491, 5D08-3989PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PLEUS, R., Senior Judge.
This action involves four petitions for writ of certiorari which have been consolidated as raising the same issue. That issue concerns whether the Fifth District’s Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel (Regional Counsel) is subject to appointment for indigent defendants in post-conviction proceedings. We answer the question in the negative and accordingly, grant the writ and quash the orders appointing Regional Counsel and denying Regional Counsel’s motions to withdraw in each case.
Petitioner, Regional Counsel Jeffrey Deen, seeks a writ of certiorari…
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