Case ID: so2d_853/html/0396-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM. CANTERO, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ellis D. DOWNS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. SC00-2382.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Aug. 21, 2003.
    James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Deborah K. Brueckheimer, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL, for Petitioner.
    Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Ronald Napolitano, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

We have for review a decision of the Second District Court of Appeal, in which the court certified as a question of great public importance the same question certified by that court and answered in Burgess v. State, 831 So.2d 137 (Fla.2002). See Downs v. State, 768 So.2d 1149 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000). We have jurisdiction. See Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. We accept jurisdiction in this case, quash the decision of the Second District, and remand for reconsideration in light of our decision in Burgess.

It is so ordered.

ANSTEAD, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, and QUINCE, JJ., concur.

CANTERO, J., dissents with an opinion, in which WELLS and BELL, JJ., concur.

CANTERO, J.,

dissenting.

I would decline to exercise jurisdiction. The argument that petitioner presented, in response to this Court’s order directing him to show cause why our decision in Burgess v. State, 831 So.2d 137 (Fla.2002), should not control the outcome of this case and why the Court should not decline to exercise jurisdiction in this case, was never presented to either the trial court or the Second District. Therefore, I would decline to exercise jurisdiction.

WELLS and BELL, JJ., concur.