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:
Seriously?
And the MAGA nuts complain about so called lawfare????
They can all just pardon each other — Bidens too. Everyone else can suck a rotten egg I guess.
Uh, yeah a__wipe.
Lawfare is when 4 fake b.s. cases are created to go after a person.
But you prolly have too much woke juice on your face to understand
Is an exec order banning the jury system next?
Just wondering if any good lawyers from Broward submitted comments to try to keep this from happening. About 25 years ago the FSC tried to change the definition of reasonable doubt, and very few—maybe two—Broward lawyers commented.
It says Hager, Onore and Blank.
I’m glad they tried.
Blank thinks Kackala woulda been a good President, so there’s that.
So did 49% of America and I agree she was and is terrible but on this issue at least he tried. All I see here on this blog is complaints with little effort.
What a fucking disgrace!!!! The judiciary is an extension of the police and the prosecution.
I hope the Florida Supreme Court reads this: You’re tyrants! You have no respect for our constitution!
I pray ALL of the Florida Supreme Court’s justices end up stuck in jail on some bullshit charges with an astronomical bond: Only then will they empathize with the suffering caused by their actions.
Why all? You also think Labarga’s dissent is wrong? And did you go up and argue against this?
Labarga suspended the constitution during covid. Including the right to a speedy trial and the right to a jury trial. So yes. Him too.
I doubt prosecutors will want to bring charges years after an arrest.
Juries won’t like that.
Why do judges favor the prosecution? Why are they never neutral?
job security
This blog is a blessing. Without how would we know about the atrocities committed by cops, prosecutors, and judges?
Yeah. I wish we had a blog in Miami that kept it real instead of off point crud.
Has the criminal defense bar gotten soft? Does BACDL have any political power?
It’s good at parties.
Who won the Galkin Award?
WE GOT NO COJONES
JUST EMPTY POCKETS
WHERE TOOTY SETS THE MOOD FOR THE GENRE