Case ID: so2d_441/html/1072-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Royal Mack SUMMERVILLE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. 61761.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Oct. 13, 1983.
    Rehearing Denied Jan. 12, 1984.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender and Tatjana Ostapoff, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Marlyn J. Altman and Robert L. Bogen, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.
   EHRLICH, Justice.

Petitioner seeks review of a denial of habeas corpus. Summerville v. State, 408 So.2d 836 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982). We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(3) of the Florida Constitution, based on conflict between the First District Court of Appeal, Carson v. Bishop, 378 So.2d 882 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979), and the Fourth District, State v. Sylvester, 401 So.2d 1123 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981).

This case presents us with the same issue as Miller v. Toles, 442 So.2d 177 (Fla.1983), which issued today. For the reasons set forth in Miller, we grant the writ of habeas corpus and quash the opinion of the court below.

It is so ordered.

ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON and SHAW, JJ., concur.

ALDERMAN, C.J., dissents with an opinion, in which McDONALD, J., concurs.

ALDERMAN, Chief Justice,

dissenting. For the reasons stated in my dissent in Miller v. Toles, 442 So.2d 177, (Fla. Oct. 13, 1983), I dissent. I would deny review. Alternatively, I would approve the decision of the District Court of Appeal, Fourth District.

McDONALD, J., concurs.