Court Opinion

ID: 9780147
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 01:25:26.738864+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:57.889028
License: Public Domain

LEWIS, J.,
dissenting.
The decision of the Third District Court of Appeal below does not expressly and directly conflict with a decision of any other Florida court. Further, the court below did not misapply Faison v. State, 426 So.2d 963 (Fla.1983), but to the contrary, held true to the applicable principles of Florida law and rendered a decision that is eminently correct and, most assuredly, not contrary to well-established existing Florida law. Here, a two-year-old child was abducted while in the backseat of the family vehicle and she was transported to a location some three miles from the place of abduction. A surveillance camera captured most of the action at the scene of the abduction. The trial judge provided the jury with proper instructions on the applicable law, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, the Third District Court below correctly applied the proper law, and this Court has no proper jurisdictional basis to become involved with this case and no correct substantive legal basis to quash the decision below.
CANADY, C.J., and POLSTON, J., concur.