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STATE EX REL. POWERS v. SCHWARTZ

No. 77-2666.

355 So.2d 460 (1978)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Kimberly Anne Powers, Relator, v. The Honorable Alan SCHWARTZ, Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida, and Jack Sandstrom, Director of the Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 14, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Carlton, Jr., Miami, for relator.

Janet Reno, State's Atty., Leonard Helfand, Staff Atty., Div. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Coral Gables, for respondents.

Before PEARSON, HUBBART and KEHOE, JJ.

HUBBART, Judge.

This is an original petition for a writ of mandamus which involves a question of whether a juvenile has been properly incarcerated pending trial as an adult for an offense punishable by life imprisonment. We have jurisdiction to entertain the petition. Article V, Section 4(b)(3), Florida Constitution. We therefore issued a rule to show cause why an alternative writ of mandamus should not issue against the named respondents. Fla.App. Rule 4.5(b)(3)...

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