*1 D ISTRICT C OURT O F A PPEAL O F T HE S TATE O F F LORIDA F OURTH D ISTRICT STATE OF FLORIDA, Petitioner, v.

PETER AVSENEW, Respondent. No. 4D17-568 [October 11, 2017] Petition for writ of prohibition to the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Ilona M. Holmes, Judge; L.T. Case No. 11-5061CF10A.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Lisa-Marie Lerner, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Howard Finkelstein, Public Defender, and Diane M. Cuddihy, Chief Assistant Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for respondent.

P ER C URIAM .

The petition for writ of prohibition is granted, and the order precluding the State from seeking the death penalty is quashed. State v. Lopez , 219 So. 3d 865 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017); State v. Chapman , No. 4D17-428, 2017 WL 3727098 (Fla. 4th DCA Aug. 30, 2017).

L EVINE , C ONNER and K LINGENSMITH , JJ., concur.

* * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.