Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Cecil SKYLES, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-06-26
Citations: 698 So. 2d 816
Docket Number: No. 87640
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Cecil SKYLES, Respondent.
Judges: OVERTON, SHAW, GRIMES, HARDING and WELLS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 698
Pages: 816–817

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Cecil SKYLES, Respondent.
No. 87640.
Supreme Court of Florida.
June 26, 1997.
Rehearing Denied Sept. 2, 1997.
Robert A Butterworth, Attorney General; Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Senior Assistant Attorney General and William A. Spillias, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for Petitioner.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender and Cherry Grant, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for Respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We have for review a decision on the following question certified to be of great public importance:
DO THE PRINCIPLES ANNOUNCED BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT IN DAVIS [v. UNITED STATES, 512 U.S. 452, 114 S.Ct. 2350, 129 L.Ed.2d 362 (1994)], APPLY TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF CONFESSIONS IN FLORIDA, IN LIGHT OF TRAYLOR [v. STATE, 596 So.2d 957 (Fla.1992)]?
Skyles v. State, 670 So.2d 1084, 1086 (Fla. DCA 1996). We have jurisdiction. Art. § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
4th V,
In State v. Owen, 696 So.2d 715 (Fla.1997), we answered the identical question in the affirmative. Accordingly, we do so here and quash the decision below.
It is so ordered.
OVERTON, SHAW, GRIMES, HARDING and WELLS, JJ., concur.
KOGAN, C.J., dissents.
ANSTEAD, J., recused.