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ROSE v. PALM BEACH CTY.

No. 52124.

361 So.2d 135 (1978)

William Lamar ROSE, Etc., Petitioner, v. PALM BEACH COUNTY, Etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 13, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Bludworth, State's Atty., and Stephen R. Koons and Joel M. Weissman, Asst. State's Attys., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

R. William Rutter, Jr., County Atty., and Charles P. Vitunac, Asst. County Atty., West Palm Beach, for respondent.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Basil S. Diamond, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for amicus curiae.

BOYD, Justice.

In the course of a criminal prosecution in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, the indigent defendant's appointed counsel moved successfully for a change of venue. This change made it necessary for the state and defense witnesses, numbering more than seventy-five, to travel from Palm Beach County to Duval County, a distance of some three hundred miles. Many of these witnesses were indigent. The prosecution asked the trial court for an order compelling...

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