| 1 | Representative Seiler offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment |
| 4 | Remove line(s) 28 through 49 and insert: |
| 5 | WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that the Florida Supreme |
| 6 | Court has the authority and responsibility "to reconsider and |
| 7 | correct erroneous rulings in exceptional circumstances and |
| 8 | where reliance on the previous decision would result in |
| 9 | manifest injustice..." State v. Owens, 696 So.2d 715, 720 (Fla. |
| 10 | 1997), and |
| 11 | WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that the case of Delgado v. |
| 12 | State, 776 So.2d 233 (Fla. 2000), results in decisions which |
| 13 | are manifestly unjust because it has caused the reversal of |
| 14 | convictions of individuals who were tried and convicted of |
| 15 | burglary, or felony murder based on burglary, under the |
| 16 | interpretation of the burglary statute approved by the |
| 17 | Legislature, in order to grant relief to undeserving defendants |
| 18 | under an interpretation of the burglary statute expressly |
| 19 | rejected by the Legislature, and |