Supreme Court of Florida

In a clarification of criminal statutes, a defendant's nolo contendere plea may constitute an express waiver of a defective charging document when he stipulates to facts which include any missing element and voluntarily pleads to a sentence that incorporates the missing element.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2009
• Published 02/26/2009

Judges

• QUINCE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Purdy, Public Defender, Michael S. Becker and Rebecca M. Becker, Assistant Public Defenders, Seventh Judicial Circuit, Daytona Beach, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, and Mary G. Jolley, Wesley H. Heidt, and Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, FL, for Respondent.