IN RE AMENDMENT TO FLORIDA RULES

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 the Attorney General of the State of Florida, the State Attorneys of Florida, and the United States Attorneys for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida; Arthur I. Jacobs, General Counsel, Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Inc., Tallahassee, and Thomas L. Powell, President, Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (FACDL), Tallahassee, for Petitioners.

Honorable O.H. Eaton, Jr., Circuit Judge, 18th Judicial Circuit, Chair, Criminal Justice Section, Florida Conference of Circuit Judges and member of the Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Sanford, Howard L. Dimmig, II, member of the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Lakeland, John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Henry Matson Coxe, III, on behalf of The Florida Bar Board of Governors, Jacksonville, Honorable Dedee S. Costello, Circuit Judge, 14th Judicial Circuit, Chair, Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Panama City, Melanie Ann Hines, Statewide Prosecutor, Office of Statewide Prosecution, Tallahassee, Elizabeth L. Hapner, Chair, Juvenile Court Rules Committee, Tampa, Ward L. Metzger, Assistant Public Defender, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Jacksonville, Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, on behalf of Florida Public Defenders Association, Tallahassee, Douglas E. Crow, Executive Assistant State Attorney, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Clearwater, Steven H. Parton, Tallahassee, Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, Jacksonville, C. Richard Parker, Public Defender, Gainesville, Benedict P. Kuehne of Sale & Kuehne, Miami, and Thomas C. Gano of Lubin & Gano, P.A., West Palm Beach, various individuals filed comments.