Patterson v. Rivkind

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION

BASKIN, Judge.

Victor Patterson [Petitioner] seeks a writ of mandamus and a writ of prohibition to prevent respondents, county court judges appointed to the Domestic Violence Department of the Family Division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court [Department], from hearing domestic violence injunction cases. Petitioner is represented by the Office of the Public Defender in two cases assigned to the Department.1 Petitioner asserts that the exclusive and perpetual appointment of county court judges to the circuit court is unlawful and usurps the circuit…