Toms v. State

80 So.3d 1134 (2012)

Jonathan Franklin TOMS, Petitioner,
v.
STATE of Florida, Respondent.

No. 1D12-0353.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 5, 2012.

T. Martin Knopes of Cadenhead, Campbell & Knopes, Crestview, for Petitioner.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Jennifer J. Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM.

VAN NORTWICK and ROBERTS, JJ., concur; THOMAS, J., concurs with written opinion.

THOMAS, J., Concurs with written opinion.

The petition for writ of habeas corpus is denied on the merits.

I concur in the denial of the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, but write to note that under Section 907.041(4)(k), Fla. Stat., the legislature has stated that a defendant "shall be entitled to dissolution of the pretrial detention order whenever the court finds a subsequent event has eliminated the basis for detention." (Emphasis added.) Here, the trial court declined to find that a subsequent event "eliminated the basis for detention." Petitioner argues that his expert testimony regarding reasonable conditions of pre-trial release to protect the public should compel release. But under the statute, it is the trial court that must make this determination, and in light of the other evidence presented, I cannot hold as a matter of law that the trial court abused its discretion in its factual determinations. The trial court complied with the law and carefully considered the factors applicable here in detaining the Petitioner under the statutory scheme. See generally, State v. Blair, 39 So.3d 1190 (Fla.2010). Thus, I concur in the denial of the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.