Title: State of Florida v. Anthony Valentino

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC00-1376
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STATE OF FLORIDA,
Petitioner,
vs.
ANTHONY VALENTINO, etc.,
Respondent.
[June 14, 2001]
LEWIS, J.
We have for review Valentino v. State, 765 So. 2d 133 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000). 
We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 3(b)(4), 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).
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We approve the determination of the Fourth District with regard to
Valentino’s standing to challenge the violent career criminal sentencing statute.
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
Fourth District - Case No. 4D99-0968 
(Broward County)
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Celia Terenzio, Bureau Chief, West Palm
Beach, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm
Beach, Florida,
for Petitioner
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Joseph R. Chloupek, Assistant Public
Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida,
for Respondent