State v. Buffett

CAMPBELL, Judge.

This is an appeal from the granting of the defendant-appellee’s motion to dismiss the state’s information and to discharge him for the state’s failure to bring him to trial within the terms of the speedy trial rule. Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.190. Appellee was charged by direct information on April 9, 1980, with grand theft of a motor vehicle in violation of section 812.014(2)(b), Florida Statutes (1979). On April 18, May 21, June 10, and July 22, 1980, he requested and was *1061granted continuances for the purpose of preparing for trial, each time waiving speedy trial to the next agreed upon…