Case Name: Johnny HOSKINS n/k/a/ Jamil Alle, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-05-13
Citations: 735 So. 2d 1281
Docket Number: No. 84,737
Parties: Johnny HOSKINS n/k/a/ Jamil Alle, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: HARDING, C.J., SHAW and ANSTEAD, JJ., and OVERTON, Senior Justice, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 735
Pages: 1281–1282

Head Matter:
Johnny HOSKINS n/k/a/ Jamil Alle, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 84,737.
Supreme Court of Florida.
May 13, 1999.
Rehearing Denied June 21, 1999.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender and James R. Wulchak, Chief, Appellate Division, Assistant Public Defender, Seventh Judicial Circuit, Daytona Beach, Florida, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Kenneth S. Nunnelley, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, Florida, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In Hoskins v. State, 702 So.2d 202 (Fla.1997), we remanded this case to the trial court for the limited purposed of having the trial judge order that a PET-scan be conducted on Johnny Hoskins, who had been sentenced to death for first-degree murder. In the Hoskins opinion, we stated:
After the PET-scan is conducted, the trial judge shall conduct an evidentiary hearing for the purpose of determining whether the PET-scan shows an abnormality and, if so, whether the results of the PET-scan cause Dr. Krop to change his trial testimony. If the trial judge finds in the affirmative, then a new penalty phase proceeding shall be conducted. Our remand is limited solely to this issue, and we direct that the PET-scan and hearing be conducted within sixty days from the date this opinion becomes final. During the pendency of this remand, the sentence of death in this cause shall be held in abeyance. After the trial judge makes a determination on this issue, this case shall be returned to this Court.
702 So.2d at 210-11.
We have now received the trial judge's determination on this issue. Following the PET-scan and the evidentiary hearing, the trial judge concluded that the PET-scan did show an abnormality and that, as conceded by the State, Dr. Krop's testimony changed as a result of the PET-scan. Because the trial judge has found in the affirmative, we vacate the sentence of death imposed on Hoskins and remand this cause for a new penalty phase proceeding.
It is so ordered.
HARDING, C.J., SHAW and ANSTEAD, JJ., and OVERTON, Senior Justice, concur.
WELLS, J., dissents with an opinion.
. The court noted that it did not reach the validity of the PET-scan test nor did it conduct a Frye hearing. See Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C.Cir.1923). The fact that the trial judge did not consider these issues at the evidentiary hearing does not affect our decision to remand this case. Those are factual issues that must be considered after remand as part of the new sentencing proceeding.