Hatfield v. State

CRENSHAW, Judge.

Petitioner Todd Hatfield seeks a writ of prohibition against Circuit Judge Philip J. Federico to disqualify him from presiding over Hatfield’s postconviction proceeding. Judge Federico denied Hatfield’s motion to disqualify judge as insufficient on its face. Within his petition for writ of prohibition, Hatfield argues that his motion was legally sufficient and that the trial judge’s order was not timely entered, thereby requiring that the motion to disqualify be deemed granted. We deny the petition for writ of prohibition. We agree with the trial court’s determination that the…