Henshaw v. State

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

Henshaw asks us to reverse judgments of convictions entered in Dade County in five separate cases upon nolo contendere pleas which specifically preserved his right to appeal from the trial court’s denial of his motions for discharge. His motions were grounded upon the State’s failure to bring him to trial within 180 days of his arrests, the time limit fixed in Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.191(a)(1).

These cases commenced with sequential arrests of Henshaw in August and September 1976. It is undisputed that Henshaw was not brought to trial within 180 days of any…