COLEMAN v. AUSTIN

No. BQ-193.

521 So.2d 247 (1988)

Donald Ray COLEMAN, Jr., Appellant, v. T. Edward AUSTIN, State Attorney of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 1, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Ray Coleman, Jr., of Wood, Atter & Coleman, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Laurence C. Pritchard, Asst. State Atty., Jacksonville, for appellee.


WENTWORTH, Judge.

Appellant seeks review of an order by which he was allowed a limited inspection of a state attorney's case file. We find that the limitation imposed was overbroad and encompassed documents subject to inspection pursuant to Chapter 119, Florida Statutes, and we therefore reverse the order appealed.

Appellant is an attorney who requested inspection of a state attorney's case file for a charge which had been nolle prossed. After initially inspecting...

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