684 So. 2d 801 (1996) John MILLS, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. No. 89434. Supreme Court of Florida. December 4, 1996. *802 Terri L. Backhus, Chief Assistant CCR; Martin J. McClain, Litigation Director and Gail E. Anderson, Assistant CCR, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Richard B. Martell, Chief, Capital Appeals, Tallahassee, for Appellee. PER CURIAM. John Mills Jr. appeals an order entered...
682 So. 2d 85 (1996) John Earl BUSH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. No. 89118. Supreme Court of Florida. October 16, 1996. *86 Stephen M. Kissinger, Chief Assistant CCR, Office of the Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Richard B. Martell, Chief, Capital Appeals, Tallahassee; and Celia A. Terenzio, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for Appellee. PER CURIAM. John Earl Bush appeals an order entered by the...
681 So. 2d 1132 (1996) AMENDMENT TO FLORIDA RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 9.020(a) AND ADOPTION OF FLORIDA RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 9.190. No. 89005. Supreme Court of Florida. September 27, 1996. Marguerite H. Davis, Chair, Appellate Court Rules Committee, Tallahassee, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. PER CURIAM. The Appellate Rules Committee of The Florida Bar has filed a petition to adopt on an emergency basis an amendment to...
682 So. 2d 74 (1996) Lawton CHILES, etc., Petitioner, v. Robert MILLIGAN, etc., and Sandra Mortham, etc., et al., Respondents. No. 88296. Supreme Court of Florida. October 10, 1996. W. Dexter Douglass, General Counsel; Deborah K. Kearney, Deputy General Counsel and Michelle Anchors, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the Governor, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Andrea J. Moreland, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the Comptroller, and Donald L. Bell, General Counsel, Office of the Secretary...
682 So. 2d 553 (1996) A.B.C., a Child, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. No. 88182. Supreme Court of Florida. November 7, 1996. *554 Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Assistant Public Defender, Chief, Appellate Intake Division, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief and Amelia L. Beisner, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondent. PER CURIAM. We have for...
678 So. 2d 1224 (1996) In re STANDARD JURY INSTRUTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES. No. 87922. Supreme Court of Florida. May 16, 1996. Rehearing Granted August 29, 1996. ON MOTION FOR REHEARING GRANTED PER CURIAM. It has come to our attention that the Florida Legislature has changed the penalties for capital felonies but that the standard jury instructions for penalty proceedings in capital cases were not amended to reflect these changes. Section 775.082(1), Florida Statutes (1993), provided: (1) A...
682 So. 2d 1089 (1996) James NOBLE, M.D., Appellant, v. MARTIN COUNTY HEALTH FACILITIES AUTHORITY, FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 87857. Supreme Court of Florida. November 7, 1996. Jordan Fields of Fields & Wilkinson, P.A., Stuart, for Appellant. Robert Kilbride, Assistant State Attorney, Stuart, on behalf of the State of Florida; Hume F. Coleman and Susan L. Turner of Holland & Knight, Tallahassee; and Paul A. Lester of Fieldstone, Lester & Shear, Miami, for Appellees. *1090 GRIMES, Justice. We review...
683 So. 2d 109 (1996) Richard Bing GWONG, Petitioner, v. Harry K. SINGLETARY, Jr., etc., Respondent. No. 87824. Supreme Court of Florida. October 10, 1996. Opinion Denying Rehearing November 22, 1996. *110 Baya Harrison, III, Monticello, for Petitioner. Louis A. Vargas, General Counsel and Susan A. Maher, Deputy General Counsel, Department of Corrections, Tallahassee, for Respondent. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; and Jason Vail and Joslyn Wilson, Assistant Attorneys General,...
684 So. 2d 186 (1996) STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Maurice Morsells HORN, Respondent. Maurice Morsells HORN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. Nos. 87788, 87789. Supreme Court of Florida. December 5, 1996. *187 Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Giselle Lylen Rivera, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Petitioner/Respondent. Glen P. Gifford, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit,...
682 So. 2d 1096 (1996) STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Arnold Leon PRATT, Jr., Respondent. No. 87768. Supreme Court of Florida. November 14, 1996. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Carolyn J. Mosley, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender and Jamie Spivey, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for Respondent. PER CURIAM. We have for review a...
685 So. 2d 1275 (1996) Brian David LEE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. No. 87715. Supreme Court of Florida. December 12, 1996. *1276 John C. Harrison of John C. Harrison, P.A., Shalimar, FL, for Petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; and James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Giselle Lylen Rivera, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent. PER CURIAM. We have for review a decision certifying two questions to be of great...
682 So. 2d 105 (1996) In re AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE. Nos. 87689, 88015. Supreme Court of Florida. October 31, 1996. John Wayne Hogan, Chair, The Florida Bar, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Jacksonville, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Sarasota, Olga J. Joanow, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, University of South Florida, Tampa, Dan Cytryn, Tamarac, John R....
683 So. 2d 475 (1996) In re AMENDMENT TO FLORIDA RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCDURE CAPITAL POSTCONVICTION PUBLIC RECORDS PRODUCTION. No. 87688. Supreme Court of Florida. October 31, 1996. Dedee S. Costello, Chair, The Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Panama City, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Richard B. Martell, Chief, Capital Appeals and Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Tallahassee, on behalf of...
685 So. 2d 1253 (1996) AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE; Amendment to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.190. Nos. 87679 & 88807. Supreme Court of Florida. November 27, 1996. John W. Frost, II, President, Bartow; Edward R. Blumberg, President-elect, Miami, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, on behalf of The Florida Bar; and Honorable Dedee S. Costello, Chair, Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Panama City, for Petitioner. Michael R....
683 So. 2d 78 (1996) AMENDMENTS TO the FLORIDA PROBATE RULES. No. 87666. Supreme Court of Florida. October 3, 1996. John W. Frost, III, President, Bartow; Edward R. Blumberg, President-elect, Miami; and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, on behalf of The Florida Bar; and Wilson Smith, Chair, Florida Probate Rules Committee, Miami, Florida, for Petitioner. Rohan Kelley, John G. Grimsley and John Arthur Jones, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Interveners. Charles E. Ray of Messer...
672 So. 2d 523 (1996) In re AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION REGARDING DEATH CASES. No. 87657. Supreme Court of Florida. April 11, 1996. PER CURIAM. To avoid unnecessary judicial labor and to assist this Court in eliminating unnecessary administrative delays in cases in which defendants have been sentenced to death, this Court, on its own motion, hereby adopts the following amendments to the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration. [1] I. ASSIGNMENT OF ORIGINAL JUDGE TO...
686 So. 2d 1345 (1996) STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Richard ESPINOSA, Respondent. No. 87633. Supreme Court of Florida. December 26, 1996. *1346 Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Allison Leigh Morris, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Petitioner. James B. Gibson, Public Defender and Dan D. Hallenberg, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Respondent. OVERTON, Justice. We have for review Espinosa v. State, 668 So. 2d 1116 , 1118 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996), in which the...
682 So. 2d 551 (1996) Gordon LOZIER, Appellant, v. COLLIER COUNTY, Florida, Appellee. No. 87609. Supreme Court of Florida. November 7, 1996. Robert C. Gebhardt of Gebhardt & Miller, Naples, for Appellant. Gregory T. Stewart and Maureen McCarthy Daughton of Nabors, Giblin & Nickerson, P.A., Tallahassee; and David C. Weigel, Collier County Attorney and David E. Bryant, Assistant County Attorney, Naples, for Appellee. George L. Varnadoe and Andrew I. Solis of Young, Van Assenderp & Varnadoe, P.A.,...
677 So. 2d 272 (1996) In re AMENDMENTS TO RULES REGULATING THE FLORIDA BAR. No. 87589. Supreme Court of Florida. June 27, 1996. John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director; John A. DeVault, III, President; John W. Frost, II, President-elect; John Hume, Chair, Rules Committee; Paul F. Hill, General Counsel; John A. Boggs, Directory of Lawyer Regulation; and Mary Ellen Bateman, UPL Counsel, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Robert M. Sondak of Cohen, Chase, et al., Miami, on behalf of the Task Force on...
682 So. 2d 144 (1996) Mario Lavon JENNINGS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. No. 87587. Supreme Court of Florida. October 31, 1996. Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender and Chet Kaufman, Assistant Public Defender, *145 Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for Petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, Senior Assistant Attorney General and Mark C. Menser, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Respondent. WELLS, Justice....
