ROBIDOUX v. COKER

No. 80-197.

383 So.2d 719 (1980)

Benjamin ROBIDOUX, Petitioner, v. Honorable Thomas M. COKER, As Judge of the Circuit Court of the 17TH Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied June 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, and Howard Finklestein and Channing Brackey, Asst. Public Defenders, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Russell S. Bohn, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.


ANSTEAD, Judge.

By petition for writ of prohibition the petitioner, Benjamin Robidoux, a juvenile, seeks to prohibit the adult criminal division of the circuit court from exercising jurisdiction with regard to two counts of an indictment which also charged petitioner with an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment in a separate count.

Section 39.02, Florida Statutes (1979) provides that upon indictment on a violation of Florida law punishable by death...

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