Zabrani v. Cowart

Full title: IQBAL ZABRANI, PETITIONER, v. EDWARD D. COWART, JUDGE, ETC., RESPONDENT

Court: Supreme Court of Florida

Date published: Apr 30, 1987

506 So. 2d 1035 (Fla. 1987)

Opinion

No. 69744.

April 30, 1987.

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.

PER CURIAM.

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.

McDONALD, C.J., and OVERTON, EHRLICH, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.