Case Title: A.T., Etc. v. State of Florida

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State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 2009-04-16T00:00:00Z

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Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC08-1159 
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A.T., etc.,  
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
STATE OF FLORIDA,  
Respondent. 
 
[April 16, 2009] 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
We have for review A.T. v. State, 983 So. 2d 679 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008), in 
which the Fourth District Court of Appeal cited as authority its decision in E.A.R. 
v. State, 975 So. 2d 610 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008), quashed, 34 Fla. L. Weekly S120 
(Fla. Jan. 30, 2009).  At the time the Fourth District issued its decision in A.T., 
E.A.R. was pending review in this Court.  We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 
3(b)(3), Fla. Const.; Jollie v. State, 405 So. 2d 418 (Fla. 1981).   
 
We stayed proceedings in this case pending our disposition of E.A.R. v. 
State, 34 Fla. L. Weekly S120 (Fla. Jan. 30, 2009), in which we ultimately quashed 
the Fourth District’s underlying E.A.R. decision and explicitly disapproved its 
 
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decision in A.T.  Now, as A.T. is on direct review, we have determined to 
correspondingly quash the Fourth District’s underlying A.T. decision. 
 
We thus grant the petition for review in the present case.  The decision under 
review is quashed and this matter is remanded to the Fourth District for 
reconsideration upon application of this Court’s E.A.R. decision. 
 
It is so ordered. 
QUINCE, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, POLSTON, LABARGA, and PERRY, 
JJ., concur. 
CANADY, J., dissents. 
 
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND 
IF FILED, DETERMINED. 
 
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Direct 
Conflict of Decisions 
 
 
Fourth District - Case No. 4D07-2129 and 4D07-3238 
 
 
(St. Lucie County) 
 
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Elisabeth Porter, Assistant Public 
Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, Celia Terenzio, Bureau 
Chief, and Sue-Ellen Kenny, Assistant Attorneys General, West Palm Beach, 
Florida, 
 
 
for Respondent