State of Florida v. Geovani Johnson

Supreme Court of Florida ____________ No. SC19-96 ____________ STATE OF FLORIDA, Petitioner, vs. GEOVANI JOHNSON, Respondent. May 21, 2020 LAWSON, J. In the decision on review, Johnson v. State,

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(Fla 4th DCA 2018), the Fourth District Court of Appeal certified direct conflict with the decisions of several other district courts of appeal in Ivy v. State,

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(Fla. 2d DCA 2016), Hanna v. State,

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(Fla. 3d DCA 2016), and Brown v. State,

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(Fla. 5th DCA 2016). The conflict concerns the procedure for preserving a challenge to the trial court’s…