STATE OF FLORIDA EX REL. GUNTER STEPHENSON, ACTING STATE ATTORNEY FOR THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT,
v.
JOHN W. WRIGHT, APPELLEE
AI-generated. These summaries, headnotes, and key points are machine-generated and may contain errors or omissions. Always verify against the full opinion text below. Not legal advice.
The Florida Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's order to expunge statements from a grand jury report concerning John W. Wright. The court found the statements improper and applied the same reasoning as in a companion case.
Yes, the statements concerning John W. Wright in the grand jury reports were improper and should be expunged. The order to expunge was affirmed.
“The appeal in the instant case has been taken by the State from an order of the assigned circuit judge expunging from the record a statement in the interim and final reports of the grand jury relating to the appellee Wright.”
Describes the procedural posture and the action taken by the lower court.
Previewing 1 of 3 key quotes on this case — the court’s exact language, pinpointed for members.
Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligenceThe State of Florida appealed an order from a circuit judge that expunged statements from an interim and final grand jury report. These statements spe…
The full statement of facts, procedural history, and disposition for this case are member content.
Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence© FLexlaw, Inc. — AI-generated enrichments are proprietary. All rights reserved.
PER CURIAM.
This is a companion case to State ex rel. Brautigam v. Interim Report of Grand Jury, etc., 93 So. 2d 99, relating to the propriety of an interim grand jury report concerning the appellee Wright and others. The appeal in the instant case has been taken by the State from an order of the assigned circuit judge expunging from the record a statement in the interim and final reports of the grand jury relating to the appellee Wright.
In the companion case, we ordered expunged from the record the entire objectionable matter for reasons which are equally applicable to the statements concerning the appellee Wright.
Accordingly, the order appealed from should be and it is hereby affirmed under the authority of State ex rel. Brautigam v. Interim Report of Grand Jury, etc., 93 So. 2d 99. TERRELL, C. J., and HOBSON, ROBERTS, DREW, THORNAL and O’CON-NELL, JJ., concur. THOMAS, J., not participating because of illness.
Cases With Similar Vibessemantic neighbors from the corpus
Citator
Cited By
-
State of Fla. ex rel. George A. Brautigam v. Interim Report OF Grand Jury Recommending Resignation of Judges and Disbarment of Attorneys Implicated in the Dowling Estate Curators Case, 93 So. 2d 99 (Fla. 1957)…t” on the ground that this conclusion was not supported by the factual allegations made therein. This order was appealed by the State and was consolidated for oral argument with the appeal in the instant case. See State ex rel. Stephenson v. Wright, 93 So. 2d 104. The ultimate question here is whether a grand jury may investigate the official conduct of a judge and his appointees, of the court of which it is an arm and file á report of its investigation which is openly and frankly slanderous as to the court…1 / 2