Case Name: BROWARD COUNTY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida and Michael T. Rivera, Respondents
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-09-25
Citations: 699 So. 2d 1352
Docket Number: No. 89989
Parties: BROWARD COUNTY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida and Michael T. Rivera, Respondents.
Judges: KOGAN, C.J., and SHAW, GRIMES, HARDING, WELLS and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 699
Pages: 1352–1352

Head Matter:
BROWARD COUNTY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida and Michael T. Rivera, Respondents.
No. 89989.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Sept. 25, 1997.
John J. Copelan, Jr., County Attorney; Anthony C. Musto, Chief Appellate Counsel and Tamara M. Scrudders, Assistant County Attorney, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Sara D. Baggett and Celia A. Terenzio, Assistant Attorneys General, West Palm Beach; Michael J. Satz, State Attorney and Susan Bailey, Assistant State Attorney, Fort Laud-erdale; and Gail E. Anderson, Assistant OCR, Office of Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for respondents.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Broward County filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the Fourth District Court of Appeal, which transferred the petition to this Court as involving a prisoner (respondent Rivera) under sentence of death. We have jurisdiction under our "plenary and exclusive appellate authority over cases involving-death sentences," and treat the present petition as a direct appeal from the trial court's order at issue.
We have decided this issue in Porter v. State, 700 So.2d 647 (Fla.1997), and in accord with that decision, we grant the petition and quash the trial court's order.
It is so ordered.
KOGAN, C.J., and SHAW, GRIMES, HARDING, WELLS and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.
OVERTON, J" concurs with an opinion.
. Asay v. Florida Parole Comm'n, 649 So.2d 859 (Fla.1994), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 591, 133 L.Ed.2d 505 (1995); see art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.