Shaw v. State

SMITH, Judge.

Shaw’s appeal presents the question of when the 180-day speedy trial period prescribed by Rule 3.191, R.Cr.P., begins to run for an accused who is initially taken into custody as a juvenile. Shaw was detained as a juvenile on October 24, 1974; juvenile jurisdiction was waived and he was held to answer in the criminal department of the circuit court on November 8, 1974; following denial of his Rule 3.191 motion for discharge, Shaw was tried and convicted of robbery on April 25, 1975, 183 days after he was taken into custody and 168 days after being waived out of the juvenile…