IN RE AMENDMENTS TO FLA. EVIDENCE CODE

No. SC00-607.

782 So.2d 339 (2000)

In re AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA EVIDENCE CODE.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 26, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald M. Rosengarten, Past-Chair, Miami, Florida, Keith H. Park, Chair, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Pedro Julio Martinez-Fraga, Committee Member, of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, Florida, on behalf of The Florida Bar Code and Rules of Evidence Committee; John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Harvey J. Sepler, Chair, Criminal Law Section, and Robert F. Spohrer, Chair, Trial Lawyers Section, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida; Charles W. Ehrhardt, Florida State University, College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida; and Thomas E. Warner, Solicitor General, and T. Kent Wetherell, II and Richard A. Hixson, Deputy Solicitors General, Tallahassee, Florida, for Petitioner.

William C. Gentry, Jacksonville, Florida; Wayne Hogan of Brown, Terrell, Hogan, Ellis, McClamma & Yegelwel, Jacksonville, Florida; Lawrence J. Block, Jr. of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, et al., West Palm Beach, Florida, William C. Gentry of the Law Office of W.C. Gentry, P.A., Jacksonville, Florida, and Wayne Hogan of Brown, Terrell, Hogan, Ellis, McClamma & Yegelwel, P.A., Jacksonville, Florida, for The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; Julianne M. Holt, Public Defender and John J. Skye, Assistant Public Defender, Tampa, Florida; James T. Miller, Jacksonville, Florida, Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee, on behalf of Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Thomas D. Shults of Kirk & Pinkerton, P.A., Sarasota, Florida; and Dan Cytryn, Tamarac, Florida, Responding.


PER CURIAM.

We have for consideration the quadrennial report of The Florida Bar Code and Rules of Evidence Committee (the Committee), concerning amendments to the Florida Evidence Code which were made by the Legislature over the past four years. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.

In its report, the Committee recommends that the Court adopt chapters 96-215, section 8, and 96-409, section 2 (both creating section 90.4025, Florida Statutes...

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