DRIESSEN v. STATE

No. 82-917.

431 So.2d 692 (1983)

Daryl Craig DRIESSEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and William A. Cain, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Michael Neimand and Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The persistence of the trial court's efforts to obtain a guilty plea from defendant Driessen raises questions concerning the court's impartiality during the jury trial conducted after Driessen rejected the offered plea. The court's statement that "either he pleads to the terms that I gave or he goes to trial" (emphasis added) was not in itself unduly coercive, but when considered in light of subsequent events, reflected the court's bias.

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