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KERKLIN v. GODWIN

No. 99-01381.

747 So.2d 956 (1999)

James KERKLIN, Petitioner, v. Howard GODWIN, as Sheriff of Highlands County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 21, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Kerklin, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Respondent.

PARKER, Acting Chief Judge.

James Kerklin, incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) at the Avon Park Correctional Institution, petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus directed to Howard Godwin, Sheriff of Highlands County (the Sheriff), to release Kerklin from the detainer placed by the Sheriff at the DOC. Because we are without jurisdiction to grant habeas corpus, we deny the petition.

In June 1997, the county court in Highlands...

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