Court Opinion

ID: 3211514
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-06-09 15:02:57.202225+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:45:55.744659
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Supreme Court of Florida
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                                  No. SC14-2110
                                  ____________

                             ANTONIO GARRETT,
                                 Petitioner,

                                        vs.

                             STATE OF FLORIDA,
                                 Respondent.

                                  [June 9, 2016]

PER CURIAM.

      We initially accepted discretionary review of the decision in Garrett v. State,

148 So. 3d 466 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014). Upon further consideration, we exercise our

discretion and discharge jurisdiction. Accordingly, we hereby dismiss this review

proceeding.

      It is so ordered.

      No motion for rehearing will be entertained by the Court. See Fla. R. App.

P. 9.330(d)(2).

LABARGA, C.J., and LEWIS, CANADY, POLSTON, and PERRY, JJ., concur.
PARIENTE, J., dissents with an opinion, in which QUINCE, J., concurs.
PARIENTE, J., dissenting.

      I would not discharge jurisdiction because there is conflict with Dorsey v.

State, 149 So. 3d 144 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014) and Rios v. State, 143 So. 3d 1167 (Fla.

4th DCA 2014). Instead, I would resolve the conflict and hold that the jury

instruction given on justifiable use of deadly force was fundamentally erroneous,

and because ineffectiveness of counsel appears on the face of the record, I would

quash the decision in Garrett v. State, 148 So. 3d 466 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014),

consistent with the approach of the Second District in Dooley v. State, 41 Fla. L.

Weekly D992, 2016 WL 1602968 (Fla. 2d DCA Apr. 22, 2016).

QUINCE, J., concurs.

Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Direct
Conflict of Decisions

      First District - Case No. 1D13-1074

      (Duval County)

Nancy Ann Daniels, Public Defender, Glen Phillip Gifford, Assistant Public
Defender, and Megan Lynne Long, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial
Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida,

      for Petitioner

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Trisha Meggs Pate, Bureau Chief, and
Kathryn Lane, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida,

      for Respondent

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