Dechaine v. State

We reverse Appellant’s convictions and remand for his discharge due to the state’s failure to bring him to trial within the time allotted under rule 3.191, Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Appellant was arrested on January 13, 1998. On February 2, 1998, the state charged him with one count of sexual battery on a child occurring on or between June 1981 and December 1987. In March, the state filed an amended information charging one count of sexual battery on a child occurring on one or more occasions between June 1981 and December 1987. By way of a statement of particulars, the state…