STATE v. MEYER

Nos. 62257, 62401, 62451, 62487, 62560 and 62908.

430 So.2d 440 (1983)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. William J. MEYER, Respondent. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Inez SILVERA, Respondent. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Phillip Michael LEVESQUE, Respondent. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Cynthia Denise SMITH, Respondent. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Robert Thomas AVERA, Respondent. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Petitioner, v. Roy Lee EPPS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Richard W. Prospect, Shawn L. Briese, Richard B. Martell, and Sean Daly, Asst. Attys. Gen., Daytona Beach, and Robert L. Bogen, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for petitioners.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender and James R. Wulchak, Chief, Appellate Div., Asst. Public Defender, Seventh Judicial Circuit, Daytona Beach, and Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender and Steven Michaelson, Asst. Public Defender, Chief, Appeal's Div., Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, for respondents.


EHRLICH, Justice.

These consolidated cases are before the Court on discretionary review of questions certified to be of great public importance.1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(4) of the Florida Constitution.

All six cases turn on one set of undisputed facts. Respondents, each represented by court-appointed counsel, have been found guilty of various crimes. Through neglect, inadvertence or error, their...

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