Gonzalez v. State

Defendant, Lazaro Gonzalez, appeals an order of the trial court denying his motion for a speedy trial discharge. The defendant was charged with trafficking in cocaine and entered into a plea agreement. The defendant then sought a writ of habe-as corpus in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida which vacated his plea on August 7, 2002. Defendant later filed successive motions for speedy trial discharge which were denied by the trial court. Defendant filed the present appeal. We reverse and remand.

Defendant, Gonzalez, entered into a plea agreement on a trafficking…