Title: Jeffrey Lamar Williams V. State of Florida
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC00-78
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: August 24, 2000

Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC00-78
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JEFFREY LAMAR WILLIAMS,
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[August 24, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review the decision in  Williams v. State, 751 So. 2d 114 (Fla.
1st DCA 2000), in which the First District certified the same question it had
certified in Woods v. State, 740 So. 2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999).  We have
jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
We recently approved the First District's opinion in Woods, holding that the
Prisoner Releasee Reoffender Act, as properly interpreted by the First District,
does not violate separation of powers, and rejecting other constitutional challenges
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to the Act.  See State v. Cotton, 25 Fla. L. Weekly S463 (Fla. June 15, 2000). 
Accordingly, for the reasons expressed in Cotton, we approve the First District’s
decision in Williams.  We decline to address the other issues raised in this case. 
See Heuss v. State, 687 So. 2d 823, 824 (Fla.1996).  
It is so ordered.
WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE and LEWIS, JJ.,
concur.
QUINCE, J., dissents with an opinion.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND
IF FILED, DETERMINED.
QUINCE, J., dissenting.
I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in State v. Cotton, 25 Fla. L.
Weekly S463 (Fla. June 15, 2000).
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Certified
Great Public Importance
First District - Case No. 1D98-4751 
(Jackson County)
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Carl S. McGinnes, Assistant Public Defender,
Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida,
for Petitioner
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Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau
Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Charmaine M. Millsaps, Assistant Attorney General,
Tallahassee, Florida,
for Respondent