PAYRET v. ADAMS

No. 67739.

500 So.2d 136 (1986)

Manuel Esteban PAYRET, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Don T. ADAMS, As Acting Circuit Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson E. Bailey, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Robert L. Teitler, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.

David H. Bludworth, State Atty., and Maureen H. Ackerman, Asst. State Atty., West Palm Beach, for State Atty. of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, amicus curiae.


EHRLICH, Justice.

We have for our review Payret v. Adams, 475 So.2d 300 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985), wherein the district court certified the following question of great public importance:

MAY A COUNTY JUDGE BE INDEFINITELY ASSIGNED CIRCUIT COURT DUTIES IN A SPECIALLY CREATED JURY DISTRICT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT?

We have jurisdiction, article V, section 3(b)(4), Florida Constitution, and answer the question...

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