Case ID: so2d_786/html/1168-02.html
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Author: {"author": "LEWIS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE OF FLORIDA, Petitioner, v. James Roy MELTON Jr., Respondent.
    No. SC00-163.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    May 17, 2001.
    
      Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Celia Terenzio, Assistant Attorney General, Bureau Chief, and Jeanine M. Germa-nowiez, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, FL, for Petitioner.
    Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Karen E. Ehrlich, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, FL, for Respondent.
   LEWIS, J.

We have for review Melton v. State, 746 So.2d 1188 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 8(b)(3), Fla. Const.

We partially quash the decision of the district court below only as it relates to the petitioner’s sentencing under the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, and remand for reconsideration upon application of our decisions in Grant v. State, 770 So.2d 655 (Fla.2000); State v. Cotton, 769 So.2d 345 (Fla.2000); McKnight v. State, 769 So.2d 1039 (Fla.2000); and Ellis v. State, 762 So.2d 912 (Fla.2000). We approve the determination of the Fourth District with regard to the appellant’s conviction for committing a lewd, lascivious, or indecent act upon a child under the age of sixteen.

It is so ordered.

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

QUINCE, J., dissents.