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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Frederick C. WILSON, Respondent.
    No. SC 96360.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    June 29, 2000.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Celia A. Terenzio, Bureau Chief, and David M. Schultz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, Florida, for Petitioner.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Louis G. Carres, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida, for Respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

We have for review the decision in State v. Wilson, 741 So.2d 546 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999), which the district court certified to be in conflict with the opinions in Woods v. State, 740 So.2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999), and McKnight v. State, 727 So.2d 314 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

We recently approved the First District’s decision in Woods, holding that the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, as properly interpreted by the First District, does not violate separation of powers, and rejecting other constitutional challenges to the Act. See State v. Cotton, Nos. SC94996 & SC95281, - So.2d -, 2000 WL 766521 (Fla. June 15, 2000). Accordingly, for the reasons expressed in Cotton, we quash the Fourth District’s decision in this case, and remand for further proceedings consistent with our opinion in Cotton. Because it appears that the respondent entered a plea of guilty after having been advised by the court that respondent, upon such plea, might not be sentenced pursuant to the Act, upon remand to the trial court, respondent shall have the right to withdraw his guilty plea.

It is so ordered.

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

QUINCE, J., dissents with an opinion.

QUINCE, J.,

dissenting.

I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in State v. Cotton, Nos. SC94996 & SC95281, — So.2d -, 2000 WL 766521 (Fla. June 15, 2000).