STATE v. LOPEZ

No. 4D17-425.

219 So.3d 865 (2017)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Fidel LOPEZ, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 31, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Leslie T. Campbell , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Howard Finkelstein , Public Defender, and Diane M. Cuddihy , Chief Assistant Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale; and Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Gary Lee Caldwell , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for respondent.


The State petitions for a writ of prohibition from the trial court's order granting the defendant's Motion to Prohibit Death as a Penalty in a pending first-degree murder prosecution. We have jurisdiction. State v. Jones, 209 So.3d 6, 9 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). We grant the petition and quash the trial...

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