STATE EX REL. SMITH v. NESBITT

No. 77-2485.

355 So.2d 202 (1978)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Richard Victor Smith, Relator, v. The Honorable Lenore C. NESBITT, As Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Elliot H. Scherker, Asst. Public Defender, for relator.

Janet Reno, State's Atty. and Nancy Wear Johnston, Asst. State Atty., for respondent.

Before HUBBART and KEHOE, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.


HUBBART, Judge.

This is an original suggestion for a writ of prohibition challenging the jurisdiction of a judge of the Dade County Circuit Court to try a criminal case on the alleged ground that the defendant's right to a speedy trial has been denied under Fla.R. Crim.P. 3.191. We have jurisdiction to entertain the suggestion. Dickoff v. Dewell, 152 Fla. 240, 9 So.2d 804 (1942); Woodward v. Petteway, 123 Fla...

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