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492 So. 2d 1071

492 So.2d 1071

11 Fla.L.Weekly 435

Mosley v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided August 21, 1986

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1986-08-21

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 2006

3 state decisions

Relies on 438 So. 2d 787 - Harris v. State · 484 So. 2d 577 - Jones v. State · 482 So. 2d 530 - Mosley v. State

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Decided 1986-08-21

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OVERTON, Justice.

¶1This is a petition to review Mosley v. State, 482 So.2d 530 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986), in which the district court affirmed Mosley’s sentence and certified the following question as being of great public importance:

Harris v. State, 438 So.2d 787 (Fla.1983), recognizes a constitutional right of an accused in a capital case to have the jury *1072instructed as to necessarily lesser included offenses and that the violation of that right constitutes fundamental error, a waiver of which, to be effective, must be made on the record knowingly and intelligently by the accused personally rather than by counsel. Do those charged with non-capital crimes enjoy this constitutional right as well as those charged with capital crimes?

¶2482 So.2d at 533. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

¶3In Jones v. State, 484 So.2d 577 (Fla.1986), we answered the certified question in the negative. Accordingly, we approve the decision of the district court in this cause.

¶4It is so ordered.

MCDONALD, C.J., and ADKINS, BOYD, EHRLICH, SHAW and BARKETT, JJ., concur.
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