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Mattie CAESER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 1D97-4604.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    March 13, 2000.
    Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender; Judith J. Dougherty, Assistant Public Defender; Tallahassee, for Appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Elizabeth Fletcher Duffy, Assistant Attorney General; Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Assistant Attorney General; James W. Rogers, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Chambers v. State, 752 So.2d 64 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000); Turner v. State, 745 So.2d 351 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999); Jackson v. State, 744 So.2d 466 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999); Woods v. State, 740 So.2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999), review granted, 740 So.2d 529 (Fla.1999); Plain v. State, 720 So.2d 585 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998), review denied, 727 So.2d 909 (Fla.1999).

As in Woods, we certify the following question as one of great public importance:

DOES THE PRISON RELEASEE REOFFENDER PUNISHMENT ACT, CODIFIED AS SECTION 775.082(8), FLORIDA STATUTES (1997), VIOLATE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS CLAUSE OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION?

Affirmed.

ERVIN, BOOTH, and BENTON, JJ., CONCUR.