STATE v. JONES

No. 4D16-3390.

230 So.3d 22 (2017)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Franklin JONES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 8, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber , Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and J. Woodson Isom , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


After an inmate at a correctional facility was disciplined for violating the inmate code of conduct by attacking a corrections officer, the state charged him with battery on a law enforcement officer. The inmate moved to dismiss the information, arguing that the criminal charge was precluded by double jeopardy principles. The trial court...

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