Title: Costa T. Vathis v. State Of Florida

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC03-2268 
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COSTA T. VATHIS,  
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
STATE OF FLORIDA,  
Respondent. 
 
[November 18, 2004] 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
We originally accepted review of Vathis v. State, 859 So. 2d 517 (Fla. 1st 
DCA 2003), pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(3) of the Florida Constitution.  
Upon further consideration, however, we find that jurisdiction was improvidently 
granted in this case.  Accordingly, this review proceeding is dismissed.   
 
It is so ordered.   
 
PARIENTE, C.J., and WELLS, ANSTEAD, CANTERO, and BELL, JJ., concur. 
LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ., dissent. 
 
 
NO MOTION FOR REHEARING WILL BE ALLOWED. 
 
 
 
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Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Direct 
Conflict of Decisions 
 
 
First District - Case No. 1D02-3906 
 
 
(Leon County) 
 
Robert Augustus Harper and Michael Robert Ufferman of Robert Augustus Harper 
Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Robert R. Wheeler, Tallahassee Bureau 
Chief, Criminal Appeals, Sherri Rolar Rollison, and Giselle Lylen Rivera, 
Assistant Attorney General’s, Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
 
for Respondent