State v. Page-Martin

MORRIS, Judge.

The State of Florida seeks a writ of certiorari to quash the circuit court’s nonfi-nal order denying the State’s request to use a challenge for cause on an alternate juror and denying the State’s request to use its remaining peremptory challenges as back strikes after the original jury veni-re had been dismissed. We deny the petition as it relates to the challenge for cause without further comment. However, we conclude that the circuit court departed from the essential requirements of law which cannot be remedied on appeal by denying the State’s use of its remaining peremptory…