Case Name: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. R.D.P., Jr., Appellee
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-01-06
Citations: 752 So. 2d 560
Docket Number: No. SC95776
Parties: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. R.D.P., Jr., Appellee.
Judges: HARDING, C.J., and SHAW, WELLS, ANSTEAD, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 752
Pages: 560–561

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. R.D.P., Jr., Appellee.
No. SC95776.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Jan. 6, 2000.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, Florida, for Appellant.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and A. Victoria Wiggins, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bar-tow, Florida, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PARIENTE, J.
We have on appeal R.D.P. v. State, 735 So.2d 551 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999), a decision of the district court declaring invalid section 874.074, Florida Statutes (Supp.1996). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.
Section 874.04 allows trial courts to enhance the degree of crime under which the defendant is charged on the basis of the defendant's membership in a criminal street gang. In State v. O.C., 748 So.2d 945 (Fla.1999), we recently concluded that this statute unconstitutionally violates substantive due process. We therefore affirm the decision of the district court in this case.
It is so ordered.
HARDING, C.J., and SHAW, WELLS, ANSTEAD, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ., concur.