STATE v. ABREU

No. SC01-2596.

837 So.2d 400 (2003)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Jose ABREU, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charlie Crist, Attorney General, Celia A. Terenzio, Bureau Chief, and Joseph A. Tringali, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, FL, for Appellant.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Paul E. Petillo, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, FL, for Appellee.


WELLS, J.

We have on appeal Abreu v. State, 804 So.2d 442 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001), a decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal declaring invalid a state statute. We have jurisdiction, see art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const., and conclude that section 90.803(22), Florida Statutes (1999), is unconstitutional in criminal proceedings to the extent that it allows the prosecutor...

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