Legal Opinion
Gosby v. Third Judicial Circuit
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided October 3, 1991No. 76417PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
586 So.2d 1056 (1991)
Jerry Wesley GOSBY, Petitioner,
v.
THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, et al., Respondents.
No. 76417.
Supreme Court of Florida.
October 3, 1991.
Nada M. Carey, Tallahassee, for petitioner.
Baya Harrison, III, Monticello, for respondents.
BARKETT, Justice.
We review Gosby v. Third Judicial Circuit, 562 So.2d 775 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990), in which the district court certified conflict with Lane v. Kaney, 557 So.2d 210 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990).[1] We quash the decision below.
Gosby is an inmate in a Florida state prison. In May 1989, he petitioned the circuit court to change his name for religious reasons…
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