Case Name: Betty SIMPSON, Personal Representative of the Estate of Morena Simpson, Deceased, Appellant, v. CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-10-01
Citations: 700 So. 2d 87
Docket Number: No. 96-1835
Parties: Betty SIMPSON, Personal Representative of the Estate of Morena Simpson, Deceased, Appellant, v. CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee.
Judges: Before LEVY, GREEN and SHEVIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 700
Pages: 87–89

Head Matter:
Betty SIMPSON, Personal Representative of the Estate of Morena Simpson, Deceased, Appellant, v. CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee.
No. 96-1835.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Oct. 1, 1997.
David J. Glantz, Miami, for appellant.
A Quinn Jones, III, City Attorney, and Theresa L. Girten and Kathryn S. Pecko, Assistant City Attorneys, for appellee.
Before LEVY, GREEN and SHEVIN, JJ.

Opinion:
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING GRANTED
PER CURIAM.
We grant the motion for rehearing, vacate the July 2, 1997, opinion and substitute the following opinion.
Betty Simpson appeals an order dismissing her complaint against the City of Miami on sovereign immunity grounds. We reverse.
The trial court erred in dismissing the complaint with prejudice. We reverse and remand with instructions to allow Simpson to amend her complaint to allege an arrest. If it is determined that City of Miami Police Officer Fuentes's action of securing the domestic violence injunction violator in the police cruiser, after having responded to a call about an injunction violation, constituted an arrest of the violator, then pursuant to the section 741.30(9)(b), Florida Statutes (1993) provision that upon arrest the violator "shall be held in custody until brought before the court as expeditiously as possible [,] " (emphasis added), the officer had no discretion under sovereign immunity principles to release the violator, see Everton v. Willard, 468 So.2d 936 (Fla.1985), and was required by the statute to take the arrested violator before a judge.
Dismissal reversed, cause remanded.
LEVY and GREEN, JJ., concur.
. Chapter 94-134, section 5, at 731, Laws of Florida, effective July 1, 1994, amended section 741.30(9)(b). Pursuant to that amendment, section 741.30(8)(b), Florida Statutes, contains substantially similar language as former subsection (9)(b).