ROBERT H. SWEATT, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Cook v. City OF Jacksonville, 823 So. 2d 86 (Fla. 2002)
  …WELLS, C.J. We have for review City of Jacksonville v. Cook, 765 So. 2d 289 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), and Pinellas County v. Eight is Enough in Pinellas, 775 So. 2d 317 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000), decisions of district courts of appeal that affect a class of state or constitutional officers. We have jurisdiction over both cases pursuant…
• Telli v. Broward Cnty., 94 So. 3d 504 (Fla. 2012)
  …hat the term of office for the clerk of the circuit court is four years, just as it is for the other officers established in that section: the sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser, and supervisor of elections. See City of Jacksonville v. Cook, 765 So. 2d 289 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), quashed, 823 So. 2d 86 (Fla.2002). The trial court concluded that nothing in article VIII, section 1(d) authorized the City to impose additional qualifications or disqualifications, rather that the provision only provided for t…
• Snipes v. Telli, 67 So. 3d 415 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011)
  …county. We conclude that such an expansion of Cook is inappropriate when the case is read in light of the broad powers accorded charter counties by sections 1(e) and 1(g) of article VIII. Cook consolidated two appeals: City of Jacksonville v. Cook, 765 So. 2d 289 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), and Pinellas County v. Eight is Enough in Pinellas, 775 So. 2d 317 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000). The first case involved a 1992 amendment to the Jacksonville Charter, which imposed a two-term limit on, among other offices, the clerk of th…

Authorities Cited

• Griffis v. State, 593 So. 2d 308 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992)