SMILEY v. STATE

No. SC06-1237.

966 So.2d 330 (2007)

Robert Lee SMILEY, Jr., Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied October 1, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, Celia Terenzio, Bureau Chief, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, FL, for Respondent.


LEWIS, C.J.

We have for review a decision of a district court of appeal in which the following question was certified by the court to be of great public importance:

DOES SECTION 776.013, FLORIDA STATUTES (2005), APPLY TO CASES PENDING AT THE TIME THE STATUTE BECAME EFFECTIVE?

State v. Smiley, 944 So.2d 1027, 1028 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. For...

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