State v. DE LA OSA

The state petitions for a writ of certiora-ri to review the trial court’s order denying disqualification of defendant’s attorney, Teresa Williams, a former assistant statewide prosecutor in Broward County. It claims that the attorney was in charge of the investigative unit of the statewide prosecutor’s office from which defendant’s prosecution arose. Ms. Williams left her position four years prior to the institution of the charges in this case. We deny the petition.

While the state claims that Ms. Williams had substantial participation in this case as a prosecutor, at an evidentiary hearing on…