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56 So. 3d 752

56 So.3d 752

35 Fla.L.WeeklySupp. 714

Hernandez v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided December 9, 2010

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 2010-12-09

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2018

4 state decisions

Relies on 592 So. 2d 737 - Williams v. State · Hernandez v. State

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Decided 2010-12-09

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CANADY, C.J.,

¶1dissenting.

¶2I would discharge jurisdiction because there is no basis for this Court to exercise conflict jurisdiction. The majority errs in concluding that there is express and direct conflict between the decision of the Third District Court of Appeal on review and the First District Court of Appeal’s decision in Williams v. State, 592 So.2d 737 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992).

¶3In Williams, the First District concluded that the defendant’s agreement “to participate in ‘a big deal’ ” was not sufficient to establish that he “contemplated a transaction involving an ounce or more of cocaine.” 592 So.2d at 739. Here, the evidence concerning the amount of the drugs to be involved in the transaction contemplated by Hernandez was based on his statement that the transaction was to be for $30,000 and that the sellers “arrived with a box two or three feet in size.” Hernandez v. State, 994 So.2d 488, 490 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008).

¶4The nature of the evidence at issue in the case on review thus is entirely distinct from the type of evidence in Williams. There is no express and direct conflict.

¶5POLSTON, J., concurs.

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