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FORD v. WAINWRIGHT

Nos. 65335, 65343.

451 So.2d 471 (1984)

Alvin Bernard FORD, or Connie Ford, Individually, and Acting As Next Friend On Behalf of Alvin Bernard Ford, Petitioner, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Secretary, Dept. of Corrections, State of Florida, Respondent. Alvin Bernard FORD, Etc., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Etc., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 25, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandy, Public Defender; Craig S. Barnard, Chief Asst. Public Defender; Richard H. Burr, III, West Palm Beach, of counsel; Richard B. Greene, Asst. Public Defender; and Michael A. Mello, Asst. Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, and Laurin A. Wollan, Jr., Tallahassee, for petitioner/appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Russell S. Bohn, Joy B. Shearer and Penny H. Brill, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent/appellee.

ADKINS, Justice.

We have before us a petition for habeas corpus and an application for stay of execution in order to allow a hearing to determine petitioner's competency. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(7), (9), Fla. Const.

The petitioner was convicted in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit on December 17, 1974, for the first-degree murder of a Fort Lauderdale police officer. The jury recommended death, and the trial court imposed...

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