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7 So. 3d 534

Docket No. SC08-1159.

At v. State

A.T., etc., Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided April 16, 2009.

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 2009-04-16

Relies on 405 So. 2d 418 - Jollie v. State · 4 So. 3d 614 - EAR v. State · E.A.R. v. State

Decided 2009-04-16

¶1Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Elisabeth Porter, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida, for Petitioner.

¶2Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, Celia Terenzio, Bureau Chief, and Sue-Ellen Kenny, Assistant Attorneys General, West Palm Beach, Florida, for Respondent.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4We have for review A.T. v. State, 983 So.2d 679 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008), in which the Fourth District Court of Appeal cited as authority its decision in E.A.R. v. State, 975 So.2d 610 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008), quashed, 4 So.3d 614 (Fla.2009). At the time the Fourth District issued its decision in A.T., E.A.R. was pending review in this Court. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.; Jollie v. State, 405 So.2d 418 (Fla.1981).

¶5We stayed proceedings in this case pending our disposition of E.A.R. v. State, 4 So.3d 614 (Fla.2009), in which we ultimately quashed the Fourth District's underlying E.A.R. decision and explicitly disapproved its decision in A.T. Now, as A.T. is on direct review, we have determined to correspondingly quash the Fourth District's underlying A.T. decision.

¶6We thus grant the petition for review in the present case. The decision under review is quashed and this matter is remanded to the Fourth District for reconsideration upon application of this Court's E.A.R. decision.

¶7It is so ordered.

¶8QUINCE, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, POLSTON, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.

¶9CANADY, J., dissents.

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