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STATE v. MEZA

No. 96-2317.

697 So.2d 968 (1997)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Ivan MEZA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

August 6, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Harvey J. Sepler, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Mark Rosenblatt, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before COPE, LEVY and GERSTEN, JJ.

COPE, Judge.

The State appeals an order discharging defendant-appellee Ivan Meza under the juvenile speedy trial rule. We conclude that the discharge order was improvidently issued, and reverse.

Defendant was originally charged as a juvenile with multiple criminal offenses. The juvenile speedy trial period is ninety days. Fla.R.Juv.P. 8.090(a). On the ninetieth day, the State filed an information in circuit court charging defendant as an adult. The same day...

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