LAVERDE v. STATE

No. 4D06-773.

933 So.2d 1289 (2006)

Edna LAVERDE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

August 2, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Finkelstein, Public Defender, and H. Dohn Williams, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

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


KLEIN, J.

Defendant seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent her prosecution for making a false statement in obtaining a false driver's license and for possession of an illegal driver's license. She argues that the statute of limitations has run and that the trial court should have granted her motion to dismiss. Prohibition is a proper remedy for a defendant challenging a prosecution barred by a statute of limitations period. Lett v. State, 837...

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