State, Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Melendez

The State of Florida, Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, petitions this court for a writ of prohibition to prevent the circuit court, acting in its appellate capacity, from exercising jurisdiction over an untimely petition for writ of certiorari filed in that court by Alexandra R. Melendez. Ms. Melendez failed to file a response to the prohibition petition, despite our order to do so. Upon consideration, we grant the petition for prohibition for the reasons expressed in Judge Monica Gordo’s dissent to the panel opinion denying dismissal, which we adopt in haec ver-ba:

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