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MELLMAN v. RUDD

No. WW-22.

389 So.2d 706 (1980)

Allan Jay MELLMAN, Petitioner, v. Honorable John A. RUDD, Judge, Second Judicial Circuit and Harry Morrison, State Attorney, Second Judicial Circuit in and for Leon County, Florida, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Leonard Fleet and Richard E. Brown, Hollywood, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., David P. Gauldin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.

ERVIN, Judge.

Mellman filed in this court a suggestion for writ of prohibition, contending his right to speedy trial was violated by the state's failure to try him within 180 days following his arrest. We issued a show cause order, and, having considered respondents' reply, now issue the writ prohibiting them from proceeding to trial.

Petitioner was arrested for conspiracy to possess and to sell more than 10,000 pounds of cannabis. On the day following his...

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