Title: Edward Jesse Meyers v. State of Florida

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC00-967
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EDWARD JESSE MEYERS,
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[July 5, 2001]
LEWIS, J.
We have for review Meyers v. State, 757 So. 2d 1230 (Fla. 2d DCA 2000). 
We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.
Meyers challenges his concurrent fifteen-year sentences under the Prison
Releasee Reoffender Act (“the Act”) and the habitual felony offender act.  On
appeal, the district court affirmed Meyers’ sentences.  In Grant v. State, 770 So. 2d
655, 657-69 (Fla. 2000), we determined that the imposition of equal, concurrent
sentences under both the Act and another recidivist statute violates the Act itself. 
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Accordingly, we vacate the decision of the district court and remand for
reconsideration upon application of our decisions in Grant; 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).
It is so ordered.
WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, and QUINCE,
JJ., concur.
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 - 
Statutory Validity 
Second District - Case No. 2D99-2401 
(Pinellas County)
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Timothy J. Ferreri, Assistant Public
Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, Florida,
for Petitioner
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant
Attorney General, and Wendy Buffington, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa,
Florida,
for Respondent