JACKSON v. STATE

Nos. 4D03-1896, 4D03-2053.

855 So.2d 178 (2003)

Willie Henry JACKSON, Jr. and Pamela Jackson, Petitioners, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, Steven H. Malone and David Casals, Assistant Public Defenders, West Palm Beach, for petitioner Willie Henry Jackson, Jr.

Jack A. Fleischman of Fleischman & Fleischman, P.A., West Palm Beach, for petitioner Pamela Jackson.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Linda Harrison, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent.


WARNER, J.

In these consolidated petitions for writ of prohibition, petitioners seek to prohibit their further prosecution in the case pending against them after the trial court judge granted a mistrial in their first prosecution and then denied their written motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds. Because we conclude that there was no manifest necessity to grant a mistrial based upon the defense counsel's comment...

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