Case ID: so2d_693/html/0540-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Elijah DAVIS, Respondent.
    No. 89116.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Feb. 27, 1997.
    Robert A. Butteiworth, Attorney General; Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Senior Assistant Attorney General and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for Petitioner.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender and Cherry Grant, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, for Respondent.
   SHAW, Justice.

We have for review Davis v. State, 680 So.2d 601 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996), in which the district court ruled that the trial judge’s routine comments on reasonable doubt constituted fundamental error. This decision conflicts with Wilson v. State, 686 So.2d 597 (Fla. 1996), wherein we reached a contrary result. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. We quash the decision of the district court of appeal and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

It is so ordered.

OVERTON, GRIMES, HARDING, WELLS and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.