CHARLES ALVIN VICKERS, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Walker v. State, 492 So. 2d 772 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986)
  …court to set an early trial date. According to the state, a defendant who agrees to a trial date outside the speedy trial time period thereby extends the time period to the agreed upon date and waives any speedy trial objection. State v. Livingston, 475 So. 2d 1328 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985). This argument is unpersuasive because in Livingston and other cases setting forth the same rule, the defense counsel agreed, during the 180-day period, to a trial date outside the 180-day period. In the instant case, unlike in L…
• Egler v. State, 718 So. 2d 850 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998)
  …te every time the court attempts to set a trial date in advance of the parties’ actually being ready for trial. We do not believe that is what the supreme court meant when it used the term “date certain” in Ferris. See generally State v. Livingston, 475 So. 2d 1328 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985)(after case was not reached on several prior docket settings, prosecutor requested case be set for time certain so he could assure witnesses of time when they would be called); Vaughn v. State, 453 So. 2d 929, 931 n. 1 (Fla. 2d DC…
• State v. Thomas, 988 So. 2d 1280 (Fla. 5th DCA 2008)
  …le. He responded: “Sure, judge.” However, on July 9, 2007, Appellee filed a motion for discharge, which the trial court granted without explanation. We conclude that our disposition of this case is controlled by our decision in State v. Livingston, 475 So. 2d 1328 (Fla. 5th DCA 1985). There, the speedy trial deadline was set to expire on October 1, 1984. During a September 20, 1984, docket call, the court set the trial during the trial week commencing October 1, 1984. When the prosecutor suggested that the ca…

Authorities Cited

• Brown v. State, 376 So. 2d 382 (Fla. 1979)