Case ID: so2d_781/html/1083-01.html
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Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM. QUINCE, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harold Eugene BROWN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. SC00-721.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    March 15, 2001.
    Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Richard M. Summa, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Edward C. Hill, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

We have for review a decision on the following question certified to be of great public importance:

DO CONVICTIONS FOR ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND FELONY CAUSING BODILY INJURY ON ACCOUNT OF THE SAME ACT AMOUNT TO DOUBLE JEOPARDY?

Brown v. State, 761 So.2d 1135 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4),- Fla. Const. For the reasons expressed, in Gordon v. State, 780 So.2d 17 (Fla.2001), we answer the certified question in the negative and approve the First District’s decision.

It is so ordered.

WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE and LEWIS, JJ., concur.

QUINCE, J., dissents with an opinion.

QUINCE, J.,

dissenting.

I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in Gordon v. State, 780 So.2d 17 (Fla.2001).