SINGLETARY v. DUGGINS

No. 97-2977

724 So.2d 1234 (1999)

Harry K. SINGLETARY, Jr., Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, Petitioner, v. Lancy DUGGINS, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

January 13, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Grant, Assistant General Counsel (Tallahassee), for petitioner.

Lancy Duggins, in proper person.

Before COPE, GREEN and FLETCHER, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Harry K. Singletary, Secretary of the Department of Corrections [DOC], seeks a writ of certiorari, directed to the trial court, quashing that court's order entered in DOC inmate Lancy Duggins' criminal case, which order prohibits the DOC from cutting Duggins' hair (based on Duggins' religious beliefs). We grant the writ and quash the trial court's order as the DOC was not given notice of the proceedings through which the order was entered. See Florida...

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