STATE EX REL. WAINWRIGHT v. BOOTH

No. 74-235.

291 So.2d 74 (1974)

The STATE of Florida ex rel. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Florida Division of Corrections, Relator, v. John W. BOOTH, As Judge of the Circuit Court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Daniel S. Dearing, Chief Trial Counsel; and Raymond W. Gearey, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, for relator.

T. Richard Hagin of Getzen & Hagin, P.A., Bushnell, for respondent.


GRIMES, Judge.

Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Florida Division of Corrections (relator), has filed a suggestion for writ of prohibition seeking to block further enforcement of an order entered by the Honorable John W. Booth, Circuit Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida (respondent).

The controversy centers around the security difficulties in the handling of five defendants during a trial to be held before the respondent in the Sumter County Courthouse...

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