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WASHINGTON v. STATE

No. 81-201.

419 So.2d 1100 (1982)

Joe WASHINGTON and Ulysses Thompson, Appellants, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied October 18, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Geoffrey C. Fleck and Harold Mendelow, Sp. Asst. Public Defenders, for appellants.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Theda R. James, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ., and WILLIAM C. OWEN, Jr. (Ret.), Associate Judge.

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

Joe Washington and Ulysses Thompson, charged and convicted of robbery, contend that they were denied the effective assistance of counsel because a single lawyer was appointed to jointly represent them. Neither Washington nor Thompson objected to the joint representation or requested the appointment of separate counsel.1 Since representation of joint defendants by one lawyer is not per se unconstitutional, see...

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