Court Opinion

ID: 9771766
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:52:53.644891+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:36.417188
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BLACKMAR, Judge,
concurring.
I concur because the defendant was tried within 180 days of the Jackson County prosecutor’s receipt of his request for disposition, and because he was tried through plea of guilty on January 6, 1986, which is within 180 days of his return from Michigan to Florida on July 11, 1985.
I reserve judgment about a situation in which prison officials simply hold a request for disposition instead of forwarding it to the state which has issued a detainer. The state of custody could certainly frustrate the purpose of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers by failing to forward the papers, and the petitioner can do little to protect himself in such a situation. I cannot fault the Florida officials for not transmitting the defendant’s request for disposition of the Missouri charges until after the Wisconsin and Michigan proceedings had been terminated.