Legal Opinion

Robinson v. Wainwright

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 16, 1970No. 70-427PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PIERCE, Judge.

Petitioner Theodore R. Robinson, Jr., has filed in this Court his petition for writ of habeas corpus contending that he has been placed in double jeopardy in that he has been twice tried and prosecuted for the same offense. He alleges no dates, charge or charges involved, nor any Court or Courts wherein he may have been tried. This alone should have warranted, and even dictated, a denial of the writ, but in the spirit of overly-benevolent magnanimity (which we will try not to be guilty of again) we issued the writ.

Respondent Wainwright, as custodian of Robinson, has filed his…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Waller v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. Robinson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1970
  3. Stewart v. WainwrightSupreme Court of Florida · 1968

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Johnson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1984
  2. Suiero v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1971
  3. Chapman v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1980
  4. Koenig v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1986
  5. Sands v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1978

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