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STATE EX REL. LEE v. HARPER

No. KK-99.

372 So.2d 1012 (1979)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Ronald Wainwright Lee, Petitioner, v. Honorable George L. HARPER, Circuit Judge, Second Judicial Circuit, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

July 13, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Friend, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

David L. McGee, Asst. State's Atty., Tallahassee, for respondent.

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Acting Chief Judge.

The determinative issue here is whether a continuance of trial granted the state in the exceptional circumstance of the prosecutor's sudden illness removes a criminal case from the strict time limitations imposed by Fla.R.Cr.P. 3.191, and permits a trial to be had at any "reasonable time," notwithstanding that the trial date was not fixed during the period of the speedy trial rule. Following King v. State,

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