Blount v. Spears

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

At first appearance, the magistrate determined that the arrest affidavit did not justify the felony charge of burglary with an assault asserted against the defendant Blount, reduced the offense to the misdemeanor of simple battery and ordered his release to pre-trial services with an alternative $1500.00 bond. On the basis only of the information filed by the State Attorney’s office for a non-bondable life felony of burglary with an assault, but see Rampersad v. State, 752 So.2d 94 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000), and without any further sworn testimony, the circuit judge at…