STATE v. CHEEKS

No. 4D19-1408.

294 So.3d 934 (2020)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Leronce Jaline Meelique CHEEKS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 15, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashley Moody , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jonathan P. Picard , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Scott Thomas Pribble , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


The State of Florida appeals from an order dismissing sexual battery charges against Leronce Cheeks for violation of speedy trial rules. The trial court found that Cheeks was functionally arrested on the day of the incident, although he was not formally arrested until a year later. The court erred, however, in its application of the four...

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