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Criminal law — Speedy trial — Discharge — State’s delay in filing charges — Pandemic procedures

Jan 23rd, 2021 in News by admin

Criminal law — Speedy trial — Discharge — State’s delay in filing charges — Pandemic procedures — Temporary suspensions of time periods involving speedy trial period mandated by Florida Supreme Court’s Administrative Order 20-32 and its amendments apply to speedy trial as it relates to filing of charges against the accused — Court rejects defendant’s contention that Court intended only to suspend speedy trial as it relates to actual trial and not the filing of charges — Defendant’s motion for speedy trial discharge based on state’s having filed information 100 days following defendant’s arrest is denied