AMEND. TO RULES OF CRIM. PROC. 3.851, 3.852 AND 3.993

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honorable Stan R. Morris, Chairperson, Supreme Court Committee on Postconviction Relief in Capital Cases (The Morris Committee), Gainesville, FL; Honorable Philip J. Padovano, Judge, First District Court of Appeal, Tallahassee, FL; Honorable O.H. Eaton, Jr., Chair, The Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Sanford, FL; John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL; Honorable Scott J. Silverman, Chair, Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, Miami, FL; Robert R. Wills, Immediate Past Chair of the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Fort Lauderdale, FL; and Honorable Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioners.

Charles Canady, General Counsel, Reginald J. Brown, Deputy General Counsel, and Martin P. McDonnell, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee, FL, for Honorable Jeb Bush, Governor of the State of Florida; Arthur I. Jacobs, General Counsel, Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Fernandina Beach, FL; Neal A. Dupree, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Southern Region, and Todd G. Scher, Litigation Director, Southern Region, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Michael P. Reiter, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Northern Region, and John P. Abatecola, Chief Assistant CCRC, Northern Region, Tallahassee, FL; Bill Jennings, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Middle Region, and Peter J. Cannon, Assistant CCRC Middle, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Middle Region, Tampa, FL; Roger R. Maas, Executive Director, Commission on Capital Cases, Tallahassee, FL; Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and W.C. McLain, Michael J. Minerva and Chet Kaufman, Assistant Public Defenders, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, FL, for the Florida Public Defender Association, Inc.; Cary Haughwout, Public Defender, and Gary Caldwell, Assistant Public Defender, Chief, Capital Crimes Division, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, FL; Gerard T. York, Assistant General Counsel for the Department of State, Tallahassee, FL; Helene E. Marks, Legal Counsel to Richard Ake, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County, Tampa, FL; Harvey Ruvin, Clerk, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, FL; Michael R. Ramage, General Counsel to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Tallahassee, FL; Thomas E. Warner, Solicitor General, and T. Kent Wetherell, II, Deputy Solicitor General, Office of the Solicitor General, Tallahassee, FL; Lawrence J. Fox, Chair, Judy A. Gallant, Staff Attorney, and Elisabeth Semel, Director of the American Bar Association, Washington, DC; Robert Augustus Harper and Steven Brian Whittington, Robert Augustus Harper Law Firm, P.A., of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Tallahassee, FL; and Stephen Krosschell of Goodman & Nekvasil, P.A., Clearwater, FL, Responding.

Tom Feeney, Johnnie B. Byrd, Jr., and John Dudley Goodlette, Tallahassee, FL, for John E. Thrasher, former Speaker, House of Representatives, Amicus Curiae.