Case Name: Todd DORIAN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1994-10-06
Citations: 642 So. 2d 1359
Docket Number: No. 82060
Parties: Todd DORIAN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: GRIMES, C.J., and HARDING and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 642
Pages: 1359–1361

Head Matter:
Todd DORIAN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 82060.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Oct. 6, 1994.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Bruce A. Rosenthal, Asst. Public Defender, Miami, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Atty. and Lisa Berlow-Lehner, Asst. State Atty., Miami, for respondent.

Opinion:
SHAW, Justice.
We have for review State v. Dorian, 619 So.2d 311 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993), based on conflict with State v. Agee, 622 So.2d 473 (Fla.1993). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. We quash Dorian.
Todd Dorian was arrested May 20, 1981, and charged with first-degree murder. Trial was set for September 8, 1981. The State moved for a continuance because it was unable to locate a witness, and trial was reset for October 26, 1981, but was again postponed. The State entered a nolle prosequi on the charge on November 7, 1981, nine days before the running of the speedy trial period, and Dorian was released.
Six years later, in October 1987, Dorian was arrested on unrelated robbery charges and while in custody made allegedly incriminating statements concerning the 1981 murder. , Three years later, on November 7, 1990, Dorian was re-indicted on the 1981 murder charge. He was arrested the following month.
Two weeks after the jury was sworn on the murder charge, Dorian moved for discharge under the speedy trial rule, and the trial court agreed, discharging him. The district court reversed, ruling that the State had a fifteen-day "window of recapture" in which to try Dorian after he filed his motion for discharge.
Two weeks after the district court denied rehearing in Dorian, this Court issued State v. Agee, 622 So.2d 473 (Fla.1993), in which we stated:
[W]e hold that when the State enters a nol pros, the speedy trial period continues to run and the State may not refile charges based on the same conduct after the period has expired.
Id. at 475.
Agee is controlling. We quash the decision of the district court below in Dorian.
It is so ordered.
GRIMES, C.J., and HARDING and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.
WELLS, J., dissents with an opinion, in which OVERTON, J., concurs.
KOGAN, J., recused.