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Andrew Lorenzo FLOYD, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. 97-2100.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    July 28, 1997.
    Clark D. Mervis, Miami, for Petitioner.
    Robert A Butterworth, Attorney General, and Erin E. Dardis, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.
    Before GODERICH, FLETCHER and SHEVIN, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Upon the State’s proper confession of error regarding the striking of the demand for speedy trial and the subsequent expiration of the speedy trial period below, we grant Andrew Lorenzo Floyd’s petition for writ of prohibition, issue the writ, and order the trial court to discharge the defendant Floyd from the charges.

Prohibition granted; case remanded to discharge the defendant.