Title: Calvin Donnell Hunt v. State of Florida

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC96990
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CALVIN DONNELL HUNT,
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[May 25, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review Hunt v. State, 742 So. 2d 531 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999), in
which the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling of the trial court in
Calvin Donnell Hunt’s case and certified conflict with the Second District Court of
Appeal’s decision in Thompson v. State, 708 So.2d 315 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998).   We
have jurisdiction.  See Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.  Based on our decision in State
v. Thompson, 750 So. 2d 643 (Fla. 1999), we quash the decision below and remand
for resentencing in accordance with the valid laws in effect on May 2, 1996, the
1 We note that Hunt has standing to raise a single subject rule challenge to chapter 95-182,
Laws of Florida, even assuming the window period for raising such a challenge closed on October
1, 1996, as determined by the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Salters v. State, 731 So. 2d 826,
826 (Fla. 4th DCA), quashed, No. 95,663 (Fla. May 11, 2000).  Further, even though Hunt failed
to raise a single subject rule challenge in the trial court, we find that such challenge may be
properly addressed in this case for the first time on appeal.  Cf. Heggs v. State, 25 Fla. L. Weekly
S137-S138, S140 n.4 (Fla. Feb. 17, 2000); Nelson v. State, 748 So. 2d 237, 241-42 (Fla. 1999)
cert. denied, 120 S. Ct. 950 (2000); State v. Johnson, 616 So. 2d 1, 3-4 (Fla. 1993).
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date on which Hunt committed the underlying offenses in this case.1  See
Thompson, 750 So. 2d at 649 (remanding for resentencing in accordance with the
valid laws in effect at the time the defendant committed her offenses).
It is so ordered.
HARDING, C.J., and SHAW, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ.,
concur.
WELLS, 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
Direct Conflict of Decisions
Third District - Case No. 3D98-2840
(Dade County)
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Marti Rothenberg, Assistant Public
Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida,
for Petitioner
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Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Christine E. Zahralban, Assistant
Attorney General, Miami, Florida,
for Respondent