Title: Candie Lynn Walker v. State of Florida

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
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No. SC21-1327 
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CANDIE LYNN WALKER, 
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
STATE OF FLORIDA, 
Respondent. 
 
January 6, 2022 
 
LAWSON, J. 
 
 
Petitioner, Candie Lynn Walker, through counsel, seeks to 
invoke this Court’s discretionary jurisdiction under article V, 
section 3(b)(3) of the Florida Constitution, which allows us to 
review, among other things, “any decision of a district court of 
appeal that . . . expressly and directly conflicts with a decision of 
another district court of appeal . . . on the same question of law.”  
Counsel’s jurisdictional brief argues that we are empowered to 
review the First District Court of Appeal’s decision in Walker v. 
State, 324 So. 3d 60 (Fla. 1st DCA 2021), because it conflicts with a 
 
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decision in another case “decided in the same district court of 
appeal.”  This argument is contrary to the plain language of our 
constitution, which only grants discretionary jurisdiction under this 
clause when a decision from one district court “conflicts with a 
decision of another district court of appeal.”  Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. 
Const. (emphasis added).  Not surprisingly, our precedent also 
makes clear that “[t]his Court’s jurisdiction does not extend to 
intra-district conflict.”  Terry v. State, 808 So. 2d 1249, 1250 n.1 
(Fla. 2002). 
 
Because the only jurisdictional argument presented in 
Walker’s brief is contrary to our constitution and precedent, we 
deny Walker’s petition. 
It is so ordered. 
CANADY, C.J., and POLSTON, LABARGA, MUÑIZ, COURIEL, and 
GROSSHANS, 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 
 
 
First District - Case No. 1D20-608 
 
 
(Escambia County) 
 
 
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Philip J. Massa of Philip J. Massa, P.A., West Palm Beach, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and David Welch, Assistant 
Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
 
for Respondent