Title: State Of Florida v. A.M.W.

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC06-1528 
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STATE OF FLORIDA,  
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
A.M.W.,   
Respondent. 
 
[October 4, 2007] 
 
LEWIS, C.J. 
 
We have for review A.M.W. v. State, 934 So. 2d 564 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006), 
in which the Fifth District Court of Appeal followed its previous decisions 
in Scarola v. State, 889 So. 2d 108 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004) (en banc), and Wilson v. 
State, 776 So. 2d 347 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001), noting that the Fourth District Court 
of Appeal had certified conflict with Wilson in Kelso v. State, 898 So. 2d 1023 
(Fla. 4th DCA 2005), approved, 961 So. 2d 277 (Fla. 2007).  At the time the Fifth 
District Court issued its decision in A.M.W., Kelso 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 disposition of Kelso.  We have 
since decided Kelso, therein approving the Fourth District Court's underlying 
Kelso decision and disapproving the Fifth District Court's Scarola and Wilson 
decisions.  See Kelso v. State, 961 So. 2d 277 (Fla. 2007).  We thus issued an order 
directing respondent in the present case to show cause why we should not accept 
jurisdiction, quash the Fifth District Court's A.M.W. decision, and remand for 
reconsideration in light of our decision in Kelso.  Respondent did not respond to 
that order, thereby constructively conceding that we should so proceed. 
We accordingly grant the petition for review in the present case. The 
decision under review is quashed and this matter is remanded to the Fifth District 
Court for reconsideration upon application of this Court's decision in Kelso. 
It is so ordered.  
WELLS, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, QUINCE, CANTERO, and BELL, JJ., concur. 
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 
 
 
Fifth District - Case No. 5D05-1517 
 
 
(Orange County) 
 
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, Pamela J. Koller and 
Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant Attorneys General, Daytona Beach, Florida, 
 
 
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for Petitioner 
 
James S. Purdy, Public Defender and Robert E. Wildridge, Assistant Public 
Defender, Seventh Judicial Circuit, Daytona Beach, Florida,  
 
 
for Respondents