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KENDALL v. STATE

No. 83-1636.

448 So.2d 1258 (1984)

Lawrence John KENDALL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 2, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Allen J. DeWeese, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Lydia M. Valenti, and Richard G. Bartmon, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. Although we agree with appellant that the standards for determining competency to stand trial and for determining insanity are substantially different and that ordinarily evidence of a prior judicial finding of competency to stand trial in another case should not be admitted, we do not believe that harmful error has been demonstrated in this case by the admission of such evidence. While we believe that the judicial finding should not have been...

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