Hill v. State

SHAW, Justice.

We have for review Hill v.State, 696 So.2d 798 (Fla. 2d DCA 1997), wherein the court certified:

On what date was the Coney decision “announced”? [1]

Id. at 798-99 (quotation marks added). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

*647We recently answered the above question in Henderson v. State, 698 So.2d 1205 (Fla. 1997), wherein we held that Coney became final when the time for rehearing in that case had run. Because the trial in the present case preceded that date, Hill cannot reap the benefits of Coney.2 We approve the result in Hill on this issue.3

It is so ordered.

KOGAN,…