Supreme Court of Florida

The decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Blair v. State is approved and the Fifth District's contrary holding disapproved as pretrial detention may not be ordered based on a failure to appear unless the court finds that the failure to appear was willful, and here, the record is devoid of evidence to suggest that defendant willfully failed to appear and the trial court did not find the failure to appear to be willful.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2010
• Published 06/03/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and John M. Conway, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, Celia Terenzio and Myra J. Fried, Assistant Attorneys General, West Palm Beach, FL, for Respondent.