State ex rel. Gerstein v. Schwartz

Relator, Richard E. Gerstein, State Attorney of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, has petitioned this Court for a writ of mandamus to compel the Honorable Alan R. Schwartz, Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, to perform his legal duty under Section 921.241(1),1 Florida Statutes. An alternative writ was issued, Judge Schwartz responded, the briefs of the parties were filed and the cause is ready for final disposition.

Section 921.241(1), Florida Statutes, requires judges to have the fingerprints of defendants, convicted in their courts of felonies, attached to the written judgment of…