Newsome v. State

Full title: Earl L. NEWSOME, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent

Court: Supreme Court of Florida

Date published: May 31, 2001

787 So. 2d 831 (Fla. 2001)

Opinion

No. SC00-633.

May 31, 2001.

Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal — Certified Direct Conflict, Second District — Case No. 2D99-1530 (Pinellas County).

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Robert D. Rosen, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, Florida, for Petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Anne Sheer Weiner, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, Florida, for Respondent.

LEWIS, J.

We have for review Newsome v. State, 779 So.2d 351 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

We vacate the decision of the district court and remand for reconsideration upon application of our decisions in Grant v. State, 770 So.2d 655 (Fla. 2000); State v. Cotton, 769 So.2d 345 (Fla. 2000); McKnight v. State, 769 So.2d 1039 (Fla. 2000); and Ellis v. State, 762 So.2d 912 (Fla. 2000).

It is so ordered.

WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, and PARIENTE, JJ., concur.

QUINCE, J., dissents.