Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Ronnie WOODS, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1993-07-01
Citations: 623 So. 2d 470
Docket Number: No. 80369
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Ronnie WOODS, Respondent.
Judges: BARKETT, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 623
Pages: 470–470

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Ronnie WOODS, Respondent.
No. 80369.
Supreme Court of Florida.
July 1, 1993.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Joan Fowler, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Don M. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Robert Friedman, Asst. Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We have for review State v. Woods, 602 So.2d 698, 698 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992), in which the Fourth District Court of Appeal certified the same question that it certified in Williams v. State, 593 So.2d 1064 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992). In Williams, the court certified the following question:
DOES THE SOURCE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS USED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL TO CONDUCT REVERSE STINGS CONSTITUTIONALLY SHIELD THOSE WHO BECOME ILLICITLY INVOLVED WITH SUCH DRUGS FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY?
593 So.2d at 1064. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(4) of the Florida Constitution.
We addressed this issue in State v. Williams, 623 So.2d 462 (Fla.1993), where we held
that the illegal manufacture of crack cocaine by law enforcement officials for use in a reverse-sting operation within 1000 feet of a school constitutes governmental misconduct which violates the due process clause of the Florida Constitution.
623 So.2d at 463. Accordingly, we approve the decision of the district court below.
It is so ordered.
BARKETT, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.
MeDONALD, J., dissents.