Zabrani v. Cowart
| Decision Date | 30 April 1987 |
| Docket Number | No. 69744,69744 |
| Citation | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 217,506 So.2d 1035 |
| Parties | 12 Fla. L. Weekly 217 Iqbal ZABRANI, Petitioner, v. Edward D. COWART, Judge, etc., Respondent. |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal--Certified Direct Conflict of Decisions, Third District--Case No. 86-910.
Mark King Leban of the Law Offices of Mark King Leban, P.A., Miami, and Stanford Blake, Miami, for petitioner.
Janet Reno, State Atty., and Joel D. Rosenblatt, Asst. State Atty., Miami, for respondent.
We have jurisdiction under article V, section 3(b)(4), Florida Constitution, to answer a certified question of great public importance:
Whether Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.191(i)(4) is applicable to a criminal case wherein the defendant is taken into custody prior to January 1, 1985, 12:01 A.M., the effective date of the above-stated rule.
Zabrani v. Cowart, 502 So.2d 1257 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986). We adopted the reasoning of the Zabrani court and answered the question posed here affirmatively in Bloom v. McKnight, 502 So.2d 422 (Fla.1987). We approve the decision below.
It is so ordered.
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