Title: State of Florida v. Eddie Riley
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC08-2116
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: December 10, 2009

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC08-2116 
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STATE OF FLORIDA,  
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
EDDIE RILEY,  
Respondent. 
 
[December 10, 2009] 
 
PER CURIAM.  
 
This Court initially accepted jurisdiction to review Riley v. State, 33 Fla. L. 
Weekly D2481 (Fla. 1st DCA Oct. 22, 2008), a decision in which the First District 
Court of Appeal certified the following question to be of great public importance:    
BASED ON THE REASONING OF GALINDEZ V. STATE, 955 So. 
2d 517 (Fla. 2007), MAY A COURT FIND THAT THE FAILURE 
TO INSTRUCT THE JURY ON THE NEXT LESSER INCLUDED 
OFFENSE CONSTITUTES HARMLESS ERROR? 
 
Id. at D2482.  After further consideration, this Court concludes that it should 
decline to exercise its discretionary jurisdiction.  Accordingly, this review 
proceeding is dismissed.   
 
It is so ordered. 
 
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QUINCE, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, CANADY, POLSTON, LABARGA, 
and PERRY, JJ., concur. 
 
NO MOTION FOR REHEARING WILL BE ALLOWED. 
 
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Certified 
Great Public Importance  
 
 
First District - Case No. 1D08-802 
 
 
(Leon County) 
 
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Trisha Meggs Pate, Bureau Chief, Michael T. 
Kennett, and Anne Catherine Conley, Assistant Attorneys General, Tallahassee, 
Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
Joshua Byrne Spector of Perlman, Yevoli and Albright, P.L., Fort Lauderdale, 
Florida, 
 
 
for Respondent