Title: State of Florida v. Burthland Forde
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC96-393
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: June 29, 2000

Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC96393
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STATE OF FLORIDA,
Petitioner,
vs.
BURTHLAND FORDE,
Respondent.
[June 29, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review the decision in State v. Forde, 742 So. 2d 349 (Fla. 2d
DCA 1999), which the district court certified to be in conflict with the opinion in
Woods v. State, 740 So. 2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999), and McKnight v. State, 727
So. 2d 314 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999).  We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla.
Const.
We recently approved the First District's decision in Woods, holding that the
Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, as properly interpreted by the First District, does
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not violate separation of powers, and rejecting other constitutional challenges to the
Act.  See State v. Cotton, SC94996 & SC95281 (Fla. June 15, 2000).  Accordingly,
for the reasons expressed in Cotton, we quash the decision of the appellate court
herein, and remand for further proceedings consistent with our opinion in Cotton. 
Because it appears that the respondent entered a plea of guilty based upon the trial
court’s indication that respondent, upon such plea, would not be sentenced pursuant
to the Act, upon remand to the trial court, respondent shall have the right to
withdraw his guilty plea.  
It is so ordered.
HARDING, C.J., and SHAW, WELLS, 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, Nos.
SC94996 & SC95281 (Fla. June 15, 2000).
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Certified
Direct Conflict of Decisions
Second District - Case No. 2D98-04495
(Pinellas County)
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Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Robert J. Krauss, Senior Assistant
Attorney General, Chief of Criminal Law, and Wendy Buffington, Assistant
Attorney General, Tampa, Florida,
for Petitioner
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Allyn M. Giambalvo, Assistant
Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, Florida,
for Respondent