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TUCKER v. STATE

No. 51621.

357 So.2d 719 (1978)

George Lee TUCKER, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 5, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack T. Edmund, John C. Wilkins, III, and John Robert Howes of Edmund & Wilkins, Bartow, for petitioner.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Richard G. Pippinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for respondent.

ENGLAND, Justice.

The Second District Court of Appeal has certified to us, as passing on a question of great public interest, its decision upholding petitioner's conviction and sentence for second degree murder in the face of an asserted right to discharge under our speedy trial rule.1 We accept the case for review2 to resolve confusion among the district courts as to which of two provisions in our speedy trial...

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