Title: Dean A. Townsend v. State of Florida
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC99-28
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: December 7, 2000

Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC99-28
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DEAN A. TOWNSEND,
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[December 7, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review a decision on the following question certified to be of
great public  importance:
WHERE THE STATE LAYS THE THREE-PRONGED
PREDICATE FOR ADMISSIBILITY OF BLOOD-
ALCOHOL TEST RESULTS IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE ANALYSIS SET FORTH IN
ROBERTSON V. STATE, 604 SO. 2D 783 (FLA.
1992), THEREBY ESTABLISHING THE SCIENTIFIC
RELIABILITY OF THE BLOOD-ALCOHOL TEST
RESULTS, IS THE STATE ENTITLED TO THE
LEGISLATIVELY CREATED PRESUMPTIONS OF
IMPAIRMENT?
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State v. Townsend, 746 So. 2d 495, 497 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999).  We have
jurisdiction.  Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.  We recently answered this question in
State v. Miles, No. SC95490 (Fla. Nov. 30, 2000), wherein we held (1) the absence
of appropriate standards with respect to the maintenance of blood samples drawn
pursuant to the implied consent law renders rule 11D-8.012, Florida Administrative
Code, inadequate and (2) the statutory presumptions of impairment are not
applicable where the mandate for quality assurance under the implied consent
statutory scheme is not enforced.  Accordingly, we quash the decision of the
Second District in part, approve it in part, and remand for proceedings consistent
with our decision in Miles.
It is so ordered.
SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE and QUINCE, JJ., concur.
WELLS, C.J., and LEWIS, J., dissent.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND
IF FILED, DETERMINED.
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - 
Certified Great Public Importance
Second District - Case No. 2D99-00275
(Polk County)
Clinton A. Curtis and Kristen M. Buzzanca of Peterson & Myers, P.A., Winter
Haven, Florida,
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for Petitioner
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant
Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant
Attorney General, Tampa, Florida,
for Respondent