SAILOR v. STATE

No. 98-1476.

733 So.2d 1057 (1999)

Dereck S. SAILOR, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

April 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Woolfork, Tallahassee, for Petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Edward C. Hill, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondent.

EN BANC


BENTON, J.

As a defendant in an ongoing criminal proceeding, Dereck S. Sailor petitions for a writ of certiorari seeking to prevent a change of venue from Gadsden County to Madison County. Given the constitutional right of the "accused ... to have a speedy and public trial by impartial jury in the county where the crime was committed," Art. I, § 16(a), Fla. Const. (1968), the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law in ordering the case transferred...

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