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   State Courts - Florida - March 7, 2008

  
Bailey v. State, Case No. 2D05-1697, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, SECOND DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Trial court should have suppressed two statements defendant gave to the police during a murder investigation. While defendant was advised of her Miranda rights before one statement, the warnings were deficient because they failed to inform her that she had a right to counsel during questioning, and no warnings were given before second statement.

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Benbrook v. Hedglin, Case No. 5D07-1536, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Burns v. State, Case No. 5D07-2624, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Summarily denying inmate's Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.800(a) motion to correct sentencing was error. If, as he claimed, had been sentenced under the unconstitutional 1995 guidelines, rather than the 1994 guidelines, and his sentence could not be imposed under 1994 guidelines without a departure, he was entitled to resentencing under the 1994 guidelines.

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C.A.F. v. State, Case No. 5D07-3982, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Overview: In a juvenile delinquency case, as the trial court imposed "conditions of release," including dusk-to-dawn curfew, without conducting a risk assessment under ? 985.245, Fla. Stat. (2007), and did not comply with Fla. R. Juv. P. 8.005 -.013, its pre-trial detention order was illegal.

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Carter v. State, Case No. 5D07-936, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Overview: Trial court's special condition of probation required defendant to complete any substance abuse or mental health counseling, vocation and rehabilitation programs, and therapy that his probation officer recommended. As this was a broad, rather than a circumscribed, delegation of judicial authority to the probation officer, it was improper.

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Coon v. State, Case No. 5D07-3109, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Dep't of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Johnson, Case No. 5D06-2931, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Overview: While ch. 98, ? 223, Laws of Fla., which deleted a provision of ? 322.271, Fla. Stat., that allowed person with four DUI convictions to apply for reinstatement of licence, violated the single subject rule, ch. 03, ? 25, Laws of Fla., cured this defect. Thus, amended ? 322.271, Fla. Stat., became operative on the effective date of 03 Fla. Laws 25.

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Fiore v. Hilliker, Case No. 2D06-1865, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, SECOND DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Overview: In a dispute over a restrictive covenant, the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to landowners' neighbor on the basis that a restrictive covenant was not reciprocal, as the law did not require reciprocal restrictions where property was not subdivided pursuant to a general scheme or plan.

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Howard v. State, Case No. 5D07-3265, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Islander Beach Club Condo. v. Skylark Sports, L.L.C., Case No. 5D06-503, COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIFTH DISTRICT, March 7, 2008, Opinion Filed
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Overview: The attorney's fee provision in a lease agreement entered into between the parties was unenforceable. The provision as written made no sense and did not reflect any clear intention of the parties as to whom, when, and how attorney's fees or costs should be allowed.

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