STATE OF FLORIDA v. BRYAN JAMES RILEY

Opinion

SIXTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA

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Case No. 6D2023-3168

Lower Tribunal No. 21-CF-6615

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STATE OF FLORIDA,

Petitioner,

v.

BRYAN JAMES RILEY

Respondent.

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Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Polk County.

J. Kevin Abdoney, Judge.

July 3, 2024

PER CURIAM.

For the reasons stated in State v. Lobato, 49 Fla. L. Weekly D1172 (Fla. 6th DCA May 31, 2024), we grant the petition for writ of certiorari and quash the order under review.

PETITION FOR CERTIORARI GRANTED; ORDER QUASHED.

STARGEL and GANNAM, JJ., concur. WHITE, J., dissents, with opinion.

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NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF TIMELY FILED

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WHITE, J., dissenting.

I dissent for the reasons expressed in State v. Lobato, 49 Fla. L. Weekly D1172, D1175 (Fla. 6th DCA May 31, 2024) (White, J., dissenting).1

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Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Doris Meacham, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Petitioner.

Howard L. “Rex” Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Rachel P. Roebuck, Steven L. Bolotin, and Jane A. McNeill, Assistant Public Defenders, Bartow, for Respondent.

1 Under the circumstances, I decline to adopt the majority opinion in Lobato.

See Normandy Ins. Co. v. Bouayad, 372 So. 3d 671, 695-99 (Fla. 1st DCA 2023) (Tanenbaum, J., concurring in the denial of rehearing en banc).