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699 So. 2d 1352

699 So.2d 1352

22 Fla.L.WeeklySupp. 607

Broward County v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided September 25, 1997

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1997-09-25

Relies on Dorman v. Jones · Asay v. Florida Parole Com'n · 700 So. 2d 647 - Hughes v. State

Decided 1997-09-25

PER CURIAM.

¶1Broward County filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the Fourth District Court of Appeal, which transferred the petition to this Court as involving a prisoner (respondent Rivera) under sentence of death. We have jurisdiction under our “plenary and exclusive appellate authority over cases involving-death sentences,”1 and treat the present petition as a direct appeal from the trial court’s order at issue.

¶2We have decided this issue in Porter v. State, 700 So.2d 647 (Fla.1997), and in accord with that decision, we grant the petition and quash the trial court’s order.

¶3It is so ordered.

KOGAN, C.J., and SHAW, GRIMES, HARDING, WELLS and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.OVERTON, J„ concurs with an opinion.

¶4. Asay v. Florida Parole Comm’n, 649 So.2d 859 (Fla.1994), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 591, 133 L.Ed.2d 505 (1995); see art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.

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