Case Name: Derek Delaughn NICHOLS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-04-12
Citations: 755 So. 2d 782
Docket Number: No. 1D99-531
Parties: Derek Delaughn NICHOLS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: BARFIELD, C.J., VAN NORTWICK and PADOVANO, JJ., CONCUR.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 755
Pages: 782–782

Head Matter:
Derek Delaughn NICHOLS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 1D99-531.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
April 12, 2000.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender and Jamie Spivey, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Charmaine M. Millsaps, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
All of the constitutional challenges to the Prison Releasee Reoffender Punishment Act asserted by the defendant in this case have been rejected by the court in other cases. See Smith v. State, 754 So.2d 100 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000)(certifying conflict with Adams v. State, 750 So.2d 659 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)); Crump v. State, 746 So.2d 558 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999); Chambers v. State, 752 So.2d 64 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000); Turner v. State, 745 So.2d 351 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999); Woods v. State, 740 So.2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999). Here, as in Woods, we certify the following question to the Supreme Court as a question of great public importance:
DOES THE PRISON RELEASEE REOFFENDER PUNISHMENT ACT, CODIFIED AS SECTION 775.082(8), FLORIDA STATUTES, (1997), VIOLATE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS CLAUSE OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION?
Affirmed.
BARFIELD, C.J., VAN NORTWICK and PADOVANO, JJ., CONCUR.