Case Name: Franklin Delano PRINCE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-05-13
Citations: 398 So. 2d 976
Docket Number: No. WW-347
Parties: Franklin Delano PRINCE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: SHIVERS and WENTWORTH, JJ., and WILLIAM C. OWEN, Jr. (Ret.), Associate Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 398
Pages: 976–977

Head Matter:
Franklin Delano PRINCE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. WW-347.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
May 13, 1981.
Rehearing Denied June 12, 1981.
Henry E. Davis and Alfred Washington, of Smith, Monroe & Washington, Jacksonville, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Miguel A. Olivella, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant seeks review of multiple convictions and sentences which we affirm except as to the trial judge's retention of jurisdiction, pursuant to Section 947.16(3) Florida Statutes, for review of any parole release order. This statute was enacted subsequent to the commission of the offenses in the present case and, since it substantively alters appellant's situation to his disadvantage, retroactive application of the provision would be ex post facto in effect and is thus impermissible. State v. Williams, 397 So.2d 663 (Fla.1981), 6 FLW 263; Rodriquez v. State, 380 So.2d 1123 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1980); cf., Weaver v. Graham, - U.S. -, 101 S.Ct. 960, 67 L.Ed.2d 17 (1980).
Accordingly, we reverse insofar as the trial judge retained jurisdiction to review parole release orders, and remand the cause for deletion of that portion of the orders of commitment. The judgments of conviction and sentences are otherwise affirmed.
SHIVERS and WENTWORTH, JJ., and WILLIAM C. OWEN, Jr. (Ret.), Associate Judge, concur.