IN RE AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA EVIDENCE CODE

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Charles Allison , Chair, Code and Rules of Evidence Committee, Fox Rothschild LLP, West Palm Beach, FL; Thomas D. Shults , Past Chair, Code and Rules of Evidence Committee, Kirk-Pinkerton, P.A., Sarasota, FL; John Harkness , Executive Director, and Ellen Sloyer , Bar Staff Liaison, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.

Wayne Lawrence Helsby , Winter Park, FL, Theodore C. Eastmoore , Sarasota, FL, and Hector Antonio Moré ;, Orlando, FL, on behalf of The Trial Lawyers Section of the Florida Bar; Jay Cohen of the Law Office of Jay Cohen, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Scott Ramsey McMillen of McMillen Law Firm, Orlando, FL; Stuart Z. Grossman , Neal Allan Roth , Andrew B. Yaffa , Seth Eric Miles , Brett Elliott Von Borke , Natasha Santiago Cortes , Susan C. Odess , David Marc Buckner , and Robert Cecil Gilbert of Grossman Roth, P.A., Coral Gables, FL; Gary M. Cohen of Grossman Roth, P.A., Boca Raton, FL; William E. Partridge and Patrick Stephen McArdle of Grossman Roth and Partridge, Sarasota, FL; Sean C. Domnick of Domnick and Shevin PL, Palm Beach Gardens, FL; James William Gustafson, Jr. of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., Tallahassee, FL; Larry Scott Stewart of Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Gain, P.A., Miami, FL; and Lee Delton Gunn, IV of the Gunn Law Group, Tampa, FL, Responding with comments.