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NEAL v. STATE

No. 97-01109.

697 So.2d 903 (1997)

Billy Jean NEAL, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 18, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Deborah Lynn Melnick, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Petitioner.

Robert Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Tonja R. Vickers, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM.

Billie Jean Neal seeks a writ of prohibition forbidding the trial court to proceed with her criminal prosecution. She maintains that the court lacks jurisdiction because the State commenced her prosecution after the statute of limitations for the charged offenses had lapsed. We agree. Accordingly, we grant Neal's petition and order the trial court to discharge her.

Prohibition is an appropriate method by which a criminal defendant who asserts that...

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