District Court of Appeal of Florida

A petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging petitioner's pretrial detention for a violation of a municipal ordinance is granted where defendant had been in jail for sixty days, the maximum length of incarceration available under the municipal ordinance at issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/30/2006
• Published 06/30/2006

Judges

• DAVIS, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Francis A. Solorzano and Robert T. Connolly, Assistant Public Defenders, Bartow, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Amanda Colon, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Respondent.