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STATE EX REL. WILLIAMS v. PURDY

No. 70-1063.

242 So.2d 498 (1971)

STATE of Florida ex rel., Robert WILLIAMS, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Relator, v. E. Wilson PURDY, Sheriff of Dade County, Florida, and Jack Sandstrom, Chief of Jail Division, Dade County, Florida, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

January 5, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Bruce Rogow, Miami, and Rene Murai, Perrine, for relator.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Melvin Grossman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard E. Gerstein, State Atty., and Milton Robbins, Asst. State Atty., for respondents.

Before BARKDULL, HENDRY and SWANN, JJ.

SWANN, Judge.

The petitioner, Robert Williams, has filed here a petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, individually and on behalf of all others alleged to be in his class.

Petitioner alleged that his class is composed of all persons presently incarcerated in the Dade County Jail who were not advised of their right to counsel and their right to have counsel appointed for them if they could not afford a lawyer at a preliminary hearing in Dade County, Florida, and...

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