Case ID: so2d_791/html/1086-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LEWIS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Samuel Eli PRICE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. SC00-1479.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    July 12, 2001.
    Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and James W. Rogers, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.
   LEWIS, J.

We have for review Price v. State, 764 So.2d 694 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

We answer the certified question in the negative, see State v. Cotton, 769 So.2d 345 (Fla.2000), and approve the decision of the district court.

It is so ordered.

WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, and PARIENTE, JJ., concur.

QUINCE, J., dissents. 
      
      . The district court certified the following question as one of great public importance: DOES THE PRISON RELEASEE REOF-FENDER PUNISHMENT ACT, CODIFIED AS SECTION 775.082(8), FLORIDA STATUTES (1997), VIOLATE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS CLAUSE OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION?