Case Title: State of Florida v. Frank Wise

Citation: 

Docket Number: SC95-230

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

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

Document:
Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC95230
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STATE OF FLORIDA,
Petitioner,
vs.
FRANK WISE,
Respondent.
[June 29, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review the decision in State v. Wise, 744 So. 2d 1035 (Fla. 4th
DCA 1999), which the district court certified to be in conflict with the opinion of the
Third District in  McKnight v. State, 727 So. 2d 314 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999), in which
the Third District had, in turn, certified conflict with State v. Cotton, 728 So. 2d 251
(Fla. 2d DCA 1998).  We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
We recently quashed the Second District’s decision in Cotton, and approved
the First District's decision in Woods v. State, 740 So. 2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999),
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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 (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 with the understanding that respondent, upon such plea, would 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
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Fourth District - Case No. 4D98-0782
(Palm Beach County)
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Celia A. Terenzio, Bureau Chief, and Joseph
A. Tringali, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, Florida,
for Petitioner
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Allen J. DeWeese, Assistant Public
Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida, 
for Respondent