Brinson v. State

BLUE, Judge.

We grant Peter L. Brinson’s petition for writ of prohibition and direct the chief judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit to designate an alternate judge to preside over Brinson’s pending criminal charges.

The facts surrounding Brinson’s concerns about Judge Downey’s impartiality were first brought to this court’s attention in a prohibition proceeding initiated in this court on May 4, 2001, opened in case num*1126ber 2D01-1835, which this court denied. Among the claims asserted in that petition by Brinson’s attorney, Maura J. Kiefer, was the following:

At the trial of State of Florida v.…