Court Opinion

ID: 9955661
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Date Created: 2024-03-28 21:03:29.447692+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:15:14.603128
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FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                        Case No. 5D24-722
                   LT Case No. 23-304047-CFDB
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JOANNE PERANO,

    Petitioner,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Respondent.
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Petition for Habeas Corpus.
A Case of Original Jurisdiction.

Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender, and Megan E. Lopez,
Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kaylee D.
Tatman, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for
Respondent.

                         March 28, 2024

WALLIS, J.

      Petitioner petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus,
arguing that she is being illegally detained without the benefit of
a bond on the charge of aggravated stalking after injunction, a
third-degree felony, following a bond hearing. The State has not
filed a motion seeking pretrial detention pursuant to Florida Rule
of Criminal Procedure 3.132.

      Petitioner correctly argues, and the State correctly concedes,
that the trial court erred by denying the motion to set bond. See
Kendall v. State, 290 So. 3d 150, 150 (Fla. 5th DCA 2020) (granting
“the petition for writ of habeas corpus because, as the State
candidly concede[d], ‘the State did not seek pretrial detention’ and
Kendall [was] not charged with a capital felony or a felony
punishable by life imprisonment”); Rodriguez v. State, 269 So. 3d
639, 640 (Fla. 5th DCA 2019) (granting the petition for writ of
habeas corpus “[b]ecause the State did not seek pretrial detention
and the new charges did not allege a capital or life felony”);
Thomas v. State, 208 So. 3d 326, 326–27 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017)
(“Here, none of the charged offenses are capital felonies or life
felonies. Under these circumstances, if the State fails to move for
pretrial detention, a trial court may not deny a defendant’s motion
for bond.”).

      Accordingly, we grant the petition, without prejudice to the
State to file a Motion for Pretrial Detention pursuant to Rule
3.132, should it choose to do so. We remand for an expedited
hearing, which will either address a Rule 3.132 Motion, if filed by
the State, or determine reasonable conditions of release pursuant
to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.131.

      PETITION GRANTED.

JAY and HARRIS, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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