STATE v. LEON

No. 4D07-1003.

967 So.2d 437 (2007)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Jorge Jesus LEON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 31, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and James W. McIntire, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The State charged the defendant, Jorge Jesus Leon, with bigamy in violation of section 826.01, Florida Statutes. Although another assistant state attorney was in attendance, when the filing attorney for the State failed to appear as ordered by the trial court, the trial court sua sponte entered an order of dismissal dismissing the case without prejudice and concluding that the State wasted the court's time and acted in bad faith in initiating the prosecution...

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