Banks v. State

POLEN, Judge.

Earline Banks appeals from the denial of her assistant public defender’s motion to withdraw, and her subsequent conviction and sentence for violation of probation. The public defender claimed a conflict of interest existed between his continued representation of appellant and his office’s previous representation of the victim. We reverse in accordance with this court’s prior opinion in Hope v. State, 654 So.2d 639 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995), and the supreme court’s opinion in Guzman v. State, 644 So.2d 996 (Fla.1994). In Guzman, the supreme court stated:

[O]nee a public defender moves to…