State v. G.P.

This case is before us on a certified question from the Third District Court of Appeal. That court, in a written opinion, had dismissed the state’s appeal from a trial court’s dismissal of a petition for delinquency because of a violation of the juvenile’s constitutional right to a speedy trial on the ground that the state does not have the right to appeal such an order. It also ruled that the state had no right of review by certiorari.

The questions, as framed by the district court of appeal, are:

Are the provisions of Article V, Section 4(b)(1) of the Florida Constitution (1980)…