Court Opinion

ID: 9462513
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:42:45.325017+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:37.517220
License: Public Domain

GEE, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
The district court’s narrow order below provided:
The State of Florida is hereby required to produce the body of the petitioner, Eddie S. Ivory, before the Honorable Everett R. Richardson, Circuit Judge, Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida, in and for Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida, for a hearing within 60 days from the date of this order so that Judge Richardson may (1) inform petitioner of his right to take an out-of-time appeal and (2) if petitioner is determined to be indigent, appoint counsel to represent him for purposes of that appeal.
' It is true and undisputed that Florida has scrupulously complied with that order; no one so much as suggests that it has not. The case is therefore moot. Thinking we should not act in moot cases, I dissent.