Translate
Text Highlighter

Bookmark

PDF

Share

Report a problem
AMICUS AI
Citation Codes
Equivalent Citations
citation codes
Docket Number
Attorney(S)
Judges
Are you a practicing lawyer?
Enhance your digital presence and reach by creating a Casemine profile.
Upload pleading to use the new AI search
Cites
Cited by
Citation Codes
Equivalent Citations
citation codes
Docket Number
Attorney(S)
Judges

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT, v. JAMES POWELL, APPELLEE.

HOBSON, Acting Chief Judge.

The State appeals the dismissal of three informations charging the appellee with assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree.

Appellee moved to dismiss the informations upon two grounds, to wit, that the State was collaterally estopped to prosecute the informations by reason of a prior finding by a jury verdict in a first degree murder trial arising out of the same criminal episode that appellee was not guilty by reason of insanity; also, that the prosecutions were barred by the provisions of the speedy trial rule. The trial court held that the State was collaterally estopped from prosecuting the charges under the case of Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 90 S.Ct. 1189, 25 L.Ed.2d 469. The trial court did not specifically rule on the applicability of the speedy trial rule.

We hold that the State was prohibited from prosecuting all three charges for failure to comply with the speedy trial rule. State v. Boren, Fla.App.3d 1973, 273 So.2d 415.

In addition, the trial judge was eminently correct in holding that the State was collaterally estopped from prosecuting the two charges alleging assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree of Officer Clark and Officer Morrow.

For the foregoing reasons the orders appealed are

Affirmed.

GRIMES, J., and SCHWARTZ, ALAN R., Associate Judge, concur.

Use AI to get other relevant cases.

Comments

STATE v. POWELL
(May 7, 1975)