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STATE v. VIGIL

No. 81-1009.

410 So.2d 528 (1982)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Victor Vera VIGIL, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied February 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Landry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, and James T. Russell, State Atty., and C. Marie King, Asst. State Atty., Clearwater, for petitioner.

A.R. Mander, III, of Greenfelder & Mander, P.A., Dade City, for respondent.

SCHEB, Chief Judge.

The state petitions for a writ of common law certiorari, contending that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of the law in ordering the release of Victor Vera Vigil after a jury found him not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. We grant the writ.

Vigil was indicted and tried by jury for first degree murder. After a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity on April 16, 1981, the trial judge requested that...

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