Case Name: Mario D. ALMANZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-09-02
Citations: 716 So. 2d 351
Docket Number: No. 97-1834
Parties: Mario D. ALMANZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before LEVY, FLETCHER and SORONDO, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 716
Pages: 351–352

Head Matter:
Mario D. ALMANZA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 97-1834.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Sept. 2, 1998.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Donald Tunnage, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Fredericka Sands, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before LEVY, FLETCHER and SORONDO, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Mario D. Almanza, defendant, appeals his sentence as a violent career criminal on his conviction for the crime of burglary. He challenges the constitutionality of the "Officer Evelyn Gort and All Fallen Officers Career Criminal Act of 1995," Chapter 95-182, Laws of Florida as being in violation of the single subject rule of the Florida Constitution.
This court addressed this issue in Higgs v. State, 695 So.2d 872 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997) and held that the statute in question is not viola-tive of Florida's Constitution. Since then the Second District Court of Appeal decided Thompson v. State, 708 So.2d 315 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998), holding that the statute in ques tion is in violation of Article III, section 6 of the Florida Constitution, the single subject rule.
We affirm the defendant's sentence and certify direct conflict with Thompson.