STATE v. JOHNSON

No. SC06-86.

982 So.2d 672 (2008)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Lorenzo Cephus JOHNSON a/k/a Lorenzo Ceatus Johnson, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 1, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, and Robert J. Krauss, Assistant Attorney General, Bureau Chief, and Marilyn Muir Beccue, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Petitioner.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and William L. Sharwell, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL, for Respondent.


QUINCE, J.

This case is before the Court for review of the decision of the Second District Court of Appeal in Johnson v. State, 929 So.2d 4 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2005). In its decision the district court ruled upon the following question, which the court certified to be of great public importance:

DOES THE ADMISSION OF A FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT LAB REPORT ESTABLISHING THE ILLEGAL NATURE OF SUBSTANCES POSSESSED...

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