Case Name: John Edward MORRIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-04-29
Citations: 708 So. 2d 697
Docket Number: No. 96-03485
Parties: John Edward MORRIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: FRANK, A.C.J., and WHATLEY,'J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 708
Pages: 697–697

Head Matter:
John Edward MORRIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 96-03485.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
April 29, 1998.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Joanna B. Conner, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PATTERSON, Judge.
John Morris appeals from his sentence as a violent career criminal for offenses occurring on February 6, 1996. In Thompson v. State, 708 So.2d 815 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998), this court held that chapter 95-182, Laws of Florida, which created violent career criminal sentencing, is unconstitutional as a violation of the single subject rule. Thus, based on Thompson, we reverse Morris's violent career criminal sentence and remand for resen-tencing in accordance with the . valid laws in effect at the time of Morris's sentencing on July 30,1996.
Reversed and remanded.
FRANK, A.C.J., and WHATLEY,'J., concur.