GOMEZ v. HINCKLEY

No. 85-1706.

473 So.2d 809 (1985)

Darrell Albert GOMEZ, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Harry G. HINCKLEY, Jr., As Circuit Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, and Nick Navarro, As Sheriff of Broward County, Florida, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

August 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, Robert R. Wills, Chief Asst. Public Defender, and Robert David Malove, Asst. Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondents.


BARKETT, Judge.

Petitioner, Darrell Albert Gomez, seeks habeas corpus relief from an order denying him pretrial bail. We vacate the order, and direct the trial court to set a reasonable bail.

Gomez was arrested and charged with homicide. Subsequently, a grand jury indicted Gomez for third degree murder and for manslaughter. Neither of these crimes is a capital offense, and neither is punishable by life imprisonment.

At a subsequent hearing upon Gomez...

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