Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Sandy SAFFORD, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-03-20
Citations: 484 So. 2d 1244
Docket Number: No. 66730
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Sandy SAFFORD, Respondent.
Judges: BOYD, C.J., and ADKINS, OVERTON, EHRLICH, SHAW and BARKETT, JJ„ concur-
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 484
Pages: 1244–1245

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Sandy SAFFORD, Respondent.
No. 66730.
Supreme Court of Florida.
March 20, 1986.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Calvin L. Fox and Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Asst. Attys. Gen., Miami, for petitioner.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Henry H. Harnage, Asst. Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, for respondent.

Opinion:
McDONALD, Justice.
The issue in this case is whether our decision in State v. Neil, 457 So.2d 481 (Fla.1984), is to be applied to cases where the jury was selected prior to Neil, but the cases were not finalized. These have been generally referred to as "pipeline" cases. We find that any person whose case was in the original trial or appellate process and who has followed the procedure specified in Neil to contest the racially discriminatory use of peremptory challenges is entitled to have Neil applied to that person's case. Our comment that Neil was not to be applied retroactively was intended to forestall the use of Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 in collateral attacks on final judgments. Neil is not to be applied to those cases where the original trial and appellate processes were completed when Neil became effective; Neil does apply to those cases where the original trial or original appeal had not been so completed.
The opinion of the district court in Safford v. State, 463 So.2d 378 (Fla.3d DCA 1985), is approved.
It is so ordered.
BOYD, C.J., and ADKINS, OVERTON, EHRLICH, SHAW and BARKETT, JJ" concur-