Case ID: so2d_816/html/0648-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harold GAINES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 1D00-1852.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Feb. 14, 2001.
    Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Nancy L. Showalter, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Anne C. Toolan, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

The appellant’s sentence is affirmed. See Knight v. State, 791 So.2d 490 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), pet. for review pending, No. SC-001987; Brown v. State, 24 Fla. L. Weekly D2753, — So.2d -, 1999 WL 1112715 (Fla. 1st DCA Dec.8, 1999). Nevertheless, consistent with our certification in Knight, we certify the following question to the supreme court as a question of great public importance:

DOES SECTION 775.082(8)(A)2A, FLORIDA STATUTES (1997), WHICH MANDATES A LIFE SENTENCE FOR PRISON RELEASEE REOF-FENDERS WHO COMMIT “A FELONY PUNISHABLE BY LIFE,” APPLY BOTH TO LIFE FELONIES AND FIRST DEGREE FELONIES PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR A TERM OF YEARS NOT EXCEEDING LIFE?

AFFIRMED.

ERVIN, BOOTH and ALLEN, JJ., concur.