Title: Carlos D. Garcia v. State of Florida
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC95-407
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: June 1, 2000

Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC95407
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CARLOS D. GARCIA,
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[June 1, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review Garcia v. State, 728 So. 2d 1220 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999),
wherein the Fifth District Court of Appeal cited as controlling authority Maddox v.
State, 708 So. 2d 617 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998), which was then pending on review in
this Court.  We have jurisdiction.  See Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.; Jollie v. State,
405 So. 2d 418 (Fla. 1981).  Based on our decision in Maddox v. State, Nos.
SC92805, SC93000, SC93207, SC93966 (Fla. May 11, 2000), we determine that
Garcia may properly raise a single subject rule challenge to chapter 95-184, Laws of
1 Garcia has standing to challenge chapter 95-184 on single subject rule grounds.  See Trapp
v. State, No. SC96074 (Fla. June 1, 2000).
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Florida, for the first time on appeal.  See also Heggs v. State, 25 Fla. L. Weekly
S137, S140 n. 4 (Fla. Feb. 17, 2000); cf. Nelson v. State, 748 So. 2d 237, 241-42
(Fla. 1999), cert. denied, 120 S. Ct. 950 (2000); State v. Johnson, 616 So. 2d 1, 3-4
(Fla. 1993).  Further, based on our decision in Heggs in which we held chapter 95-
184 to be unconstitutional as violative of article III, section 6 of the Florida
Constitution, we quash the district court’s affirmance of  Garcia’s sentence and
remand for resentencing in accordance with the sentencing guidelines in effect
before the relevant amendments made in chapter 95-184 became effective.1
It is so ordered.
HARDING, C.J., and SHAW, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, LEWIS and QUINCE, JJ.,
concur.
WELLS, J., dissents.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND IF
FILED, DETERMINED.
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - 
Direct Conflict
Fifth District - Case No. 5D98-1066 
(St. Johns County)
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Nancy Ryan, Assistant Public Defender,
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Seventh Judicial Circuit, Daytona Beach, Florida,
for Petitioner
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Belle B. Schumann, Wesley Heidt and Kellie
A. Nielan, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, Florida,
for Respondent