Steel v. Jenne
Steel v. Jenne
Opinion of the Court
Petitioner has filed an emergency petition for writ of habeas corpus claiming that his bail is excessive. This court has held consistently that excessive bail is tantamount to no bail. Cameron v. McCampbell, 704 So.2d 721 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998).
In this case petitioner supplied the trial court with the financial information upon
Accordingly, on this record we deny the petition but do so without prejudice to petitioner seeking further relief from the trial court consistent with the trial court’s comments at the close of the January 15, 1998 hearing.
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