Case Name: William Leon HURST, Michael Ian Dusakto, and Hugh Raven Walker, Petitioners, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1985-01-24
Citations: 464 So. 2d 534
Docket Number: No. 65245
Parties: William Leon HURST, Michael Ian Dusakto, and Hugh Raven Walker, Petitioners, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: ADKINS, OVERTON, ALDERMAN, MCDONALD, EHRLICH and SHAW, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 464
Pages: 534–534

Head Matter:
William Leon HURST, Michael Ian Dusakto, and Hugh Raven Walker, Petitioners, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 65245.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Jan. 24, 1985.
Rehearing Denied March 28, 1985.
Alan I. Karten, Miami, for petitioners.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Michael J. Neimand, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This case is before us to review the decision in State v. Hurst, 448 So.2d 612 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984), which the district court has certified as one which passes upon a question of great public importance. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
The certified question concerns the continued validity of Florida's loitering and prowling statute, section 856.021, Florida Statutes (1981), after Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352, 103 S.Ct. 1855, 75 L.Ed.2d 903 (1983), which held California's loitering statute unconstitutional on vagueness grounds. In Watts v. State, 463 So.2d 205 (Fla.1985), we addressed this issue and found that section 856.021, as construed in State v. Ecker, 311 So.2d 104 (Fla.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1019, 96 S.Ct. 455, 46 L.Ed.2d 391 (1975), did not suffer from the vagueness problems present in the California loitering statute. For the reasons set out in Watts we answer the certified question by holding that section 856.021 remains valid and constitutional even after Kolender. Accordingly, we approve the decision under review.
It is so ordered.
ADKINS, OVERTON, ALDERMAN, MCDONALD, EHRLICH and SHAW, JJ., concur.
BOYD, C.J., dissents.