Legal Opinion
Drago v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided June 25, 1982No. 81-2078PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
415 So.2d 874 (1982)
Joseph S. DRAGO, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 81-2078.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
June 25, 1982.
Jerry Hill, Public Defender, Bartow, and Rick Dalan, Asst. Public Defender, St. Petersburg, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Michael J. Kotler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
GRIMES, Judge.
This case illustrates the difficult problems sometimes faced by trial judges in dealing with accused persons who express unreasonable dissatisfaction with their court-appointed attorneys.
The state charged appellant with grand…
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