Case Name: Danny Dean YOST, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1977-03-09
Citations: 343 So. 2d 99
Docket Number: No. CC-336
Parties: Danny Dean YOST, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: BOYER, C. J., and SMITH, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 343
Pages: 99–100

Head Matter:
Danny Dean YOST, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. CC-336.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
March 9, 1977.
Richard W. Ervin, III, Public Defender, and Theodore E. Mack, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Raymond L. Marky, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appel-lee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Once again a prisoner seeks to challenge the constitutionality of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.191 upon the ground that, as applied, it denies him equal protection pursuant to the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Appellant Yost reasons that the subject rule, in establishing a one year time frame of speedy trial for prisoners, when weighed against a 180-day time frame for non-prisoners presents a classic "on the face" deprivation of a fundamental right, and that such classification may withstand an equal protection challenge only if the state can demonstrate a "compelling Interest". Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U.S. 618, 89 S.Ct. 1322, 22 L.Ed.2d 600 (1969). Yost then argues that such a "compelling state interest cannot be shown". The identical question was presented to the Supreme Court of Florida in State v. Lott, 286 So.2d 565 (Fla.1973), cert. den. Lott v. Florida, 417 U.S. 913, 94 S.Ct. 2613, 41 L.Ed.2d 217 (1974), which resolved same contrary to Yost's contention here.
AFFIRMED.
BOYER, C. J., and SMITH, J., concur.
RAWLS, J., specially concurs.
. Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.191(b)(1) states in part:
". . Except as otherwise provided, a person who is imprisoned in a penal or correctional institution of this State or a subdivision thereof and who is charged by indictment or information, whether or not a detainer has been filed against such person, shall without demand be brought to trial within one year if the crime charged be a misdemeanor or felony not involving violence . . .