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LAWYER v. CRAWFORD

No. 87-2704.

517 So.2d 36 (1987)

Willie Lee LAWYER, Petitioner, v. Fred C. CRAWFORD, As Director of the Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Honorable Arthur I. Snyder, As Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Dade County, Florida, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 17, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Singer, Miami, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Mark Dunn, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HENDRY and HUBBART, JJ.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The trial judge declined to consider testimony relating to the defendant Lawyer's amenability to bond, because of an acknowledged blanket policy that he would not grant pre-trial release, regardless of the defendant's circumstances, in any armed robbery case in which, as here, the proof is evident and the presumption great.1 This was clearly impermissible. Under State...

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