ABBOTT v. GENUNG

No. 69-492.

238 So.2d 135 (1970)

Jack R. ABBOTT, Jr., Appellant, v. Donald S. GENUNG, Sheriff of Pinellas County, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Duffy, Clearwater, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and James Robert Yon, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


MANN, Judge.

Jack Abbott's reasons for preferring Florida to California will not likely be the subject of a Development Commission advertisement. He has completed prison terms aggregating fifteen years in Florida and seeks, through this habeas corpus proceeding, to avoid serving five years to life in California. He was taken to the California trial under a carefully worded extradition contract between Governors Bryant and Brown which provided that "at the conclusion...

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