Leeder v. Espinosa

The petitioners seek a writ of prohibition ordering the Honorable Eleanor Schockett to disqualify herself from presiding over the case below. As this Court stated in a previous case involving petitioner’s counsel and Judge Eleanor Schockett, disqualification of a trial judge is appropriate where the petitioner asserts that he. cannot receive a fair trial or hearing because his counsel was an opponent in the judge’s reelection campaign. Tower Group, Inc. v. Doral Enterprises Joint Ventures, 760 So.2d 256, 257 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000). Furthermore, we must reiterate that:

[Under certain…