Montalvo v. Futch

Full title: RANIER MONTALVO, PETITIONER, v. THE HONORABLE M. DANIEL FUTCH JR., CIRCUIT…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: May 2, 1990

559 So. 2d 754 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

Opinion

No. 90-0637.

May 2, 1990.

Petition for writ of prohibition.

Alan H. Schreiber, Public Defender, Steven Michaelson, Chief Asst. Public Defender, and A. Randall Haas, Asst. Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Sylvia H. Alonso, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

We grant the petition for writ of prohibition and direct that the petitioner be discharged because of the state's failure to comply with the provisions of the speedy trial rule. See Winfield v. State, 503 So.2d 333 (Fla. 2d DCA 1986); State ex rel. Kennedy v. McCauley, 265 So.2d 547 (Fla. 4th DCA 1972).

HERSEY, C.J., and ANSTEAD and STONE, JJ., concur.