IN RE AMENDMENT TO FLORIDA RULE 3.220(h)

Nos. 85585, 85801.

668 So.2d 951 (1995)

In re AMENDMENT TO FLORIDA RULE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 3.220(h) & Florida Rule of Juvenile Procedure 8.060(d). In re AMENDMENT TO FLORIDA RULE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 3.220(h).

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied February 28, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Marty E. Moore, Deputy General Counsel, Tallahassee, and Harry Shorstein, State Attorney, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, on behalf of Attorney General of State of Florida, State Attorneys of Florida, Statewide Prosecutor, and United States Attorneys for Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida; Arthur I. Jacobs, General Counsel, Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Inc., Tallahassee, and Thomas L. Powell, President-Elect, Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Tallahassee, for Petitioners.

O.H. Eaton, Jr., Circuit Judge, Seminole County, Sanford, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Dedee S. Costello, Acting Chair, Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Bay County Courthouse, Panama City, Elizabeth L. Hapner, Chair, Juvenile Court Rules Committee, Tampa, Steven H. Parton, Tallahassee, Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, Jacksonville, Ward L. Metzger, Assistant Public Defender, Jacksonville, C. Richard Parker, Public Defender, Gainesville, and Benedict P. Kuehne of Sale & Kuehne, Miami, Comments filed by Interested Parties.


PER CURIAM.

We are asked in two separate petitions to amend the procedural rules providing for discovery depositions in criminal and juvenile delinquency proceedings. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const. In the first petition, Florida's Attorney General, the State Attorneys of Florida, the Statewide Prosecutor, and various other attorneys ask this Court to substantially limit the availability of discovery depositions under Florida Rule of Criminal...

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