Title: State of Florida v. Lemuel E. Isaac

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC05-2047 
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STATE OF FLORIDA, 
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
LEMUEL E. ISAAC, 
Respondent. 
 
[June 16, 2011] 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
We previously granted review of Isaac v. State, 911 So. 2d 813 (Fla. 1st 
DCA 2005), to resolve a certified conflict in the district courts regarding the 
applicability of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), and Blakely v. 
Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004), to resentencing proceedings which became final 
after Apprendi and Blakely issued where the conviction and the original sentence 
were final before they issued.  See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const; State v. Isaac, 4 So. 
3d 677 (Fla. 2009) (granting review).  We resolved this conflict, however, in State 
v. Fleming, 36 Fla. L. Weekly S50 (Fla. Feb. 3, 2011), revised, 36 Fla. L. Weekly 
S198 (Fla. Apr. 28, 2011) (granting motion for clarification in part and remanding 
 
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for harmless error analysis).  Accordingly, we have determined to discharge 
jurisdiction in Isaac and dismiss this review proceeding. 
 
It is so ordered. 
CANADY, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, LABARGA and PERRY, 
JJ., concur. 
POLSTON, J., recused. 
 
NO MOTION FOR REHEARING WILL BE ALLOWED. 
 
 
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Certified 
Direct Conflict of Decisions 
 
 
First District - Case No. 1D03-3438 
 
 
(Leon County) 
 
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Trisha Meggs Pate, Bureau Chief, and 
Christine Ann Guard, Assistant Attorneys General, Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
Isaac Ramon Ruiz-Carus of Wilkes and McHugh, P.A., Tampa, Florida, 
 
 
for Respondent