State v. Wright

In this capital murder case, the State of Florida seeks certiorari review of the circuit court’s order requiring the state to *794obtain and disclose to the defendants/respondents the criminal histories of all of the state’s civilian witnesses.

Specifically, the defense sought to discover “any and all civilian criminal histories, including but not limited to NCIC, FCIC, and PALMS” of all of the state’s civilian witnesses.1 At the hearing on the defendants’ motion to compel the criminal records, the state asserted that it was prohibited from disseminating the federal information under NCIC and…