STATE v. JONES

Nos. 2D16-446, 2D16-647, 2D16-747, 2D16-865.

209 So.3d 6 (2016)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Carlos Benito JONES, Respondent. State of Florida, Petitioner, v. Steven Cecil Dykes, Respondent. State of Florida, Petitioner, v. Charles Anthony Foster, Respondent. State of Florida, Petitioner, v. Carlos Ruben Rivas, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 10, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Timothy A. Freeland and Stephen D. Ake , Assistant Attorneys General, and Carol M. Dittmar , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Petitioner.

Bob Dillinger , Public Defender, and Sara B. Mollo and Edward J. Abare, III , Assistant Public Defenders, Clearwater, for Respondents Carlos Benito Jones and Steven Cecil Dykes.

Julianne M. Holt , Public Defender, and Theda R. James , Assistant Public Defender, Tampa, for Respondents Charles Anthony Foster and Carlos Ruben Rivas.


The State of Florida seeks four writs of prohibition, arguing that four trial judges in two circuit courts lacked authority to determine that, after the United States Supreme Court's holding in Hurst v. Florida, ___ U.S. ___, 136 S.Ct. 616, 193 L.Ed.2d 504 (2016), the State could not

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