Opinion
4D20-2079
08-18-2021
E.A.C., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Erika Follmer, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rachael Kaiman, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Kathleen J. Kroll, Judge; L.T. Case No. 50-2020-CJ-000147-XXXX-MB.
On Motion to Certify a Question of Great Public Importance
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Erika Follmer, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rachael Kaiman, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
PER CURIAM
We grant the motion to certify a question of great public importance.
The supreme court has discretionary jurisdiction to review decisions of the district courts which pass upon a question certified to be of great public importance. Fla. R. App. P. 9.030(a)(2)(A)(v). The majority decision passes upon such a question. We therefore certify the following question to the supreme court as one of great public importance.
Do witnesses appearing in a juvenile adjudicatory hearing by Zoom during a global pandemic constitute a per se violation of the defendant's due process rights?
May, Ciklin, and Levine, JJ., concur.