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AMEND. TO FLA. RULE OF CRIM. PROC. 3.853

No. SC03-1630.

884 So.2d 934 (2004)

AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 3.853(d)(1)(A) (POSTCONVICTION DNA TESTING).

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 15, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Olin Wilson Shinholser, Chair, and Howardene Garrett, Bartow, FL, and Ivy Ginsberg, Miami, FL, on behalf of The Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee; and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of The Florida Bar, for Petitioner.

Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.

Talbort D'Alemberte, Florida State University School of Law and Jennifer Greenberg, Florida Innocence Initiative, Inc., Tallahassee, FL, and Catherine Arcabascio, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Janet Reno, Miami, FL; Honorable O.H. Eaton, Jr., Chair, Sanford, Florida and Honorable Thomas H. Bateman, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Criminal Court Steering Committee; Honorable Nancy Daniels, President, Tallahassee, FL, and John E. Morrison, Assistant Public Defender on behalf of the Florida Public Defender Association, Inc., Miami, FL; Robert Augustus Harper and Michael Robert Ufferman of Robert Augustus Harper Law Firm, P.A., on behalf of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, The Florida Innocence Project and the Florida Innocence Initiative, Tallahassee, FL; and James T. Miller, Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee, Jacksonville, FL, on behalf of The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Individuals who filed comments with this Court.

PER CURIAM.

The Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee has filed an emergency petition to amend Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.853, Motion for Postconviction DNA Testing. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.; Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.130(e).

BACKGROUND

The history of rule 3.853 is succinctly set forth as follows in Amendment to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure Creating Rule 3.853 (DNA Testing),

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