Office of Criminal Conflict & Civil Regional Counsel v. Smith

KHOUZAM, Judge.

In these two consolidated cases, the Second District’s Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel seeks a quash al of (1) the orders appointing Regional Counsel to represent the defendants, Donald Smith and Michael L. Queen, at the evidentiary hearings on their respective motions for postconviction relief and (2) the orders denying Regional Counsel’s motions to withdraw. The petitions for writ of certiorari are untimely as to the orders appointing Regional Counsel, but timely as to the orders denying the Regional Counsel’s motions to withdraw. We grant Regional…