Sheffield v. Fleet

Petitioner, Bobby Gordon Sheffield, filed herein a suggestion for writ of prohibition alleging violation of the “speedy trial rule”, Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.191. We issued Rule Nisi to which respondent has filed his return. We have also carefully considered the briefs filed by able counsel. Petitioner relies heavily upon a recent case from this court, State v. Ansley, 349 So.2d 837 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). A careful examination of that case reveals that we there only held that mere silence alone on the part of a defendant or his counsel at a proceeding in which trial date is set beyond the speedy trial…