HARP v. HINCKLEY

No. 81-2066.

410 So.2d 619 (1982)

Richard B. HARP, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Harry G. HINCKLEY, As Circuit Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, and Captain Joseph Mullen, As Superintendent of the Pompano Juvenile Detention Facility, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent R. Alto, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

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


ANSTEAD, Judge.

This is a petition for review of an order conditioning the petitioner's pretrial release upon the posting of a $10,000 surety bond. At issue is whether the trial court may increase the amount of a bail bond required to be posted by a defendant for release before trial, for the purpose of restraining the defendant from committing future acts of misconduct. Immediately before the scheduled release of this opinion this appeal was rendered moot by virtue...

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