Case Title: State of Florida v. Frederick C. Wilson

Citation: 

Docket Number: SC96-360

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 2000-06-29T00:00:00Z

Document:
Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC96360
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STATE OF FLORIDA,
Petitioner,
vs.
FREDERICK C. WILSON,
Respondent.
[June 29, 2000]
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
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not violate separation of powers, and rejecting other constitutional challenges to the
Act.  See State v. Cotton, Nos. SC94996 & SC95281 (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.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND IF
FILED, DETERMINED.
QUINCE, J., dissenting.
I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in State v. Cotton, Nos.
SC94996 & SC95281 (Fla. June 15, 2000).
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Certified
Direct Conflict of Decisions
Fourth District - Case No. 4D98-3954
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(Palm Beach County)
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