Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Maurice HARRIS, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-04-03
Citations: 690 So. 2d 1297
Docket Number: No. 88473
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Maurice HARRIS, Respondent.
Judges: KOGAN, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, GRIMES, WELLS and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 690
Pages: 1297–1298

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Maurice HARRIS, Respondent.
No. 88473.
Supreme Court of Florida.
April 3, 1997.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Richard L. Polin, Assistant Attorney General, Miami, for Petitioner.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Rosa C. Figarola, Assistant Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, for Respondent.

Opinion:
HARDING, Justice.
We have for review a decision passing on the following question certified to be of great public importance:
WHEN A CONVICTION FOR ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE FELONY MURDER MUST BE VACATED ON AUTHORITY OF STATE V. GRAY, 654 So.2d 552 (Fla.1995), DO LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSES REMAIN VIABLE FOR A NEW TRIAL OR REDUCTION OF THE OFFENSE?
Harris v. State, 674 So.2d 854, 855 (Fla. 3d DCA 1996). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla.Const.
We answered this question in State v. Wilson, 680 So.2d 411, 412-13 (Fla.1996), by holding that where a conviction for attempted felony murder has been vacated on the basis of our opinion in Gray, the proper remedy is retrial on any other offenses of an equal or lesser degree which were instructed on at trial. Harris was convicted of attempted first-degree felony murder. Therefore, he may be tried on any of the offenses instructed on at trial which are of a degree equal to or lesser than attempted first-degree felony murder.
We answer the certified question as explained above, quash the decision of the district court, and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
KOGAN, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, GRIMES, WELLS and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.