STATE v. HAMILTON

No. 63536.

448 So.2d 1007 (1984)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. James HAMILTON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 5, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Richard B. Martell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for petitioner.

James Russo, Public Defender and Matthew G. Minter, Asst. Public Defender, Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, Sanford, for respondent.


OVERTON, Justice.

This is a petition by the State of Florida to review a decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal reported as Hamilton v. Davis, 427 So.2d 1137 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983), in which that court granted a writ of mandamus directing the trial judge to appoint a psychiatric expert to examine Hamilton and to assist his defense counsel in exploring the possibility of an insanity defense in accordance with the provisions...

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