Legal Opinion
Yacucci v. Hershey
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided October 4, 1989No. 89-0640PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
This petition for a writ of prohibition is sought by the Public Defender for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit in Martin County to prohibit the trial judge from appointing the public defender’s office to represent indigent parents in dependency matters where it already represents said parents on substantive criminal charges. Presently, the public defender is representing two defendants on charges of child abuse and sexual battery, respectively, and *783m both instances has also been appointed to represent these defendants in related dependency actions.
A former public defender in Martin County set…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- State Ex Rel. Smith v. JorandbySupreme Court of Florida · 1986
- Graham v. VannDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1981
- Office of the Public Defender of the Ninth Judicial Circuit v. BakerDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1979
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