Does today’s Supreme Court rule change gutting speedy trial mean suspects can now be arrested and charged therafter at any point within the statute of limitations?

That’s how it appears, absent any constitutional speedy protections that haven’t already been eroded to the point of futility by existing caselaw.

Read all about it in the Supreme Court’s opinion released this morning, and pay particular attention to Jorge Labarga’s spot-on dissent regarding “individuals who are subjected to protracted criminal investigations,” and “procedural limbo.”

IN RE: AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULE OF CRIMINAL
PROCEDURE 3.191

On the bright side, with speedy trial now not triggered until formal charges are filed, we shouldn’t have to hear judges cite Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.250 starting lawyers’ allowable case prep time from the time of arrest, since that head-scratching and impossible standard is finally logically kaput:

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Summary email of today’s changes sent to ASA’s by SAO appeals honcho Joel Silvershein at 11:41 AM: