Case Name: DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY & MOTOR VEHICLES, Petitioner, v. Robert LAZZOPINA, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2001-10-19
Citations: 807 So. 2d 77
Docket Number: No. 5D01-1301
Parties: DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY & MOTOR VEHICLES, Petitioner, v. Robert LAZZOPINA, Respondent.
Judges: HARRIS and PETERSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 807
Pages: 77–78

Head Matter:
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY & MOTOR VEHICLES, Petitioner, v. Robert LAZZOPINA, Respondent.
No. 5D01-1301.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Oct. 19, 2001.
Opinion on Rehearing Feb. 15, 2002.
Enoch J. Whitney, General Counsel, and Michael J. Alderman, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee, for Petitioner.
Stuart I. Hyman, of Stuart I. Hyman, P.A., Orlando, for Respondent.

Opinion:
GRIFFIN, J.
The State of Florida, Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles ["Department"] seeks certiorari review of a decision of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit overturning the Department's suspension of Robert Lazzopina's ["Lazzopina"] driver's license for driving under the influence. The issues raised are controlled by a series of recent opinions of this court quashing the decisions on which Lazzopina has relied in support of the circuit court's decision. Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Russell, 793 So.2d 1073 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001); Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Mowry, 794 So.2d 657 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001); Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Cochran, 798 So.2d 761 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001). We likewise quash the circuit court's decision and remand.
WRIT GRANTED; DECISION QUASHED.
HARRIS and PETERSON, JJ., concur.