Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Kenneth Ray DUCKSWORTH, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-11-25
Citations: 408 So. 2d 589
Docket Number: No. 81-489
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Kenneth Ray DUCKSWORTH, Respondent.
Judges: SCHEB, C. J., and RYDER, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 408
Pages: 589–590

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Kenneth Ray DUCKSWORTH, Respondent.
No. 81-489.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Nov. 25, 1981.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 26, 1982.
Ralph L. Marchbank, Jr., Asst. State Atty., Sarasota, for petitioner.
Elliott C. Metcalfe, Jr., Public Defender, Sarasota, and Becky A. Titus, Asst. Public Defender, Sarasota, for respondent.

Opinion:
OTT, Judge.
In reliance upon our opinion in State v. Duke, 378 So.2d 96 (Fla. 2d DCA 1979) the county court permitted the state to introduce evidence, in appellee's DUI prosecution, that when arrested he had refused to submit to a test for alcohol in his system. The circuit court reversed appellee's conviction, on the ground that Duke was effectively invalidated by Sambrine v. State, 386 So.2d 546 (Fla.1980).
The circuit court was correct. Duke was predicated upon our belief that the conditions for admissibility set forth in State v. Esperti, 220 So.2d 416 (Fla. 2d DCA 1969), cert. dismissed, 225 So.2d 910 (Fla.1969), had been met, in that the tests authorized by section 322.261(1)(a), Florida Statutes, are compulsory. Sambrine holds that they are not.
The state's petition for certiorari is DENIED.
SCHEB, C. J., and RYDER, J., concur.