PATE v. SAWAYA

No. 95-2296.

663 So.2d 679 (1995)

Stephen PATE, Petitioner, v. Honorable Thomas D. SAWAYA, Circuit Court Judge, etc., Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

December 1, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Pate, Lowell, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Charlie McCoy, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondent.


W. SHARP, Judge.

Pate petitions this court to issue a writ of mandamus to require the trial court to schedule his civil case for trial. Pate is a state prisoner representing himself in this proceeding, as well as in a civil suit. In that suit he sought compensation from other inmates for injuries he suffered in prison when they beat him. We agree the trial should now be set and issue the writ.

The civil suit was filed in April of 1993. It was set for trial...

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