Case ID: so2d_325/html/0425-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bruce Allen JACOBS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. V-402.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Dec. 23, 1975.
    
      Richard W. Ervin, III, Public Defender, and David J. Busch, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
    Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Richard W. Prospect, Asst. Atty. Gen., for ap-pellee.
   SMITH, Judge.

This is another case in which both the prosecutor and defense counsel announced acceptance of the prospective jurors, who were excused and reassembled three days later to be sworn and to hear the case. Defense counsel, for a plausibly stated reason, then sought to exercise peremptory challenges which the trial court refused to honor. In two decisions rendered since the trial and conviction in this case, this Court has determined, on review of prior decisions of the Supreme Court, that the trial court’s action was reversible error requiring a new trial. Shelby v. State, 301 So.2d 461 (Fla.App. 1st, 1974); Walden v. State, 319 So.2d 51 (Fla.App. 1st, 1975).

Reversed.

MILLS, J., concurs.

BOYER, C. J., concurs specially.

BOYER, Chief Judge

(concurring specially) .

In order that the law be stable and certain, and in conformity with the time-honored principle of stare decisis, I concur. Shelby v. State, supra, and Walden v. State, supra, have become binding precedents. However, I yet adhere to my views as expressed in the dissenting opinion in Walden v. State, supra.