Opinion

Brown v. State

  • 34 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 291
  • 7 So. 3d 528
  • 2009 Fla. LEXIS 409
  • 2009 WL 702839
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Filed
Mar 19, 2009
Status
Published
On the bench
Quince, Pariente, Lewis, Canady, Polston, Labarga
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 53.0%

The opinion

PER CURIAM.

We have for review

Brown v. State,

940 So.2d 500 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006), an unelabo-rated decision in which the Fourth District Court of Appeal relied upon its decision in

Yisrael v. State,

938 So.2d 546 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006) (en banc),

disapproved in part,

993 So.2d 952 (Fla.2008). When the Fourth District’s decision in

Brown

became final,

Yisrael

was already pending review in this Court. We have jurisdiction.

See

art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.;

Jollie v. State,

405 So.2d 418, 420 (Fla.1981).

We stayed proceedings in this case pending our disposition of

Yisrael,

in which we: (1) approved the decision of the First District in

Gray v. State,

910 So.2d 867 (Fla. 1st DCA 2005), and (2) disapproved the reasoning and rule of law articulated by the Fourth District in its underlying decision, but ultimately approved the result reached by that court

on other grounds. See Yisrael v. State,

993 So.2d 952, 960-61 (Fla.2008). We subsequently issued an order directing the State to show cause why we should not accept jurisdiction, summarily quash the decision under review, and remand for reconsideration in light of our decision in

Yisrael.

In response, the State asserts several record-based substantive contentions and urges that this Court deny review. However, the full appellate record is not before us, and the Fourth District is the proper tribunal in which to present these fact-based contentions.

This Court has disapproved in part the very opinion upon which the district court relied below. Accordingly, we grant the petition for review, quash, and remand to the Fourth District Court of Appeal for reconsideration upon application of our decision in

Yisrael.

It is so ordered.

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QUINCE, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, CANADY, POLSTON, and LABARGA, JJ., concur.

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