Title: Samuel Eli Price v. State of Florida

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

1. The district court certified 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?
Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC00-1479
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SAMUEL ELI PRICE,
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[July 12, 2001]
LEWIS, J.
We have for review Price v. State, 764 So. 2d 694 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000).  We
have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
We answer the certified question in the negative,1 see State v. Cotton, 769
-2-
So. 2d 345 (Fla. 2000), and approve the decision of the district court.
It is so ordered.
WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, and PARIENTE, JJ., concur.
QUINCE, J., dissents.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND
IF FILED, DETERMINED.
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - 
Certified Great Public Importance
First District - Case No. 1D99-2048 
(Santa Rosa County)
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Assistant Public
Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida,
for Petitioner
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and James W. Rogers, Senior Assistant
Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida,
for Respondent