Office of Criminal Conflict & Civil Regional Counsel, First District v. Bruner

The Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel petitions this court for a writ of certiorari, challenging an order entered upon the circuit court’s appointment of this petitioner to represent a convicted felon in an evidentiary hearing under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. In appointing the petitioner, the circuit court declined to follow the precedent established in Deen v. Wilson, 1 So.3d 1179 (Fla. 5th DCA 2009), and improperly made the appointment in this collateral criminal proceeding without statutory authorization. That was a departure from the essential…