Title: Jerry English v. State of Florida
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC94-759
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: March 23, 2000

Supreme Court of Florida
 
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No. SC94759
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JERRY ENGLISH,
Petitioner,
vs.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondent.
[March 23, 2000]
PER CURIAM.
We have for review English v. State, 721 So. 2d 1250 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998), in
which the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed Jerry English’s violent career
criminal sentence based on its prior decision in Higgs v. State, 695 So. 2d 872 (Fla.
3d DCA 1997).  In so affirming, the English court certified conflict with the Second
District Court of Appeal’s decision in Thompson v. State, 708 So. 2d 315 (Fla. 2d
DCA 1998).  We have jurisdiction.  See Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.  Based on our
decision in State v. Thompson, 25 Fla. L. Weekly S1 (Fla. Dec. 22, 1999), we
1 We note that English has standing to raise a single subject rule challenge to
chapter 95-182, Laws of Florida, even assuming the window period for raising such a
challenge closed on October 1, 1996, as determined by the Fourth District Court of
Appeal in Salters v. State, 731 So. 2d 826, 826 (Fla. 4th DCA), review granted, No.
95,663 (Fla. Dec. 3, 1999).
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quash the decision below and remand for resentencing in accordance with the valid
laws in effect on January 15, 1996, which is when  English committed the
underlying offense for which he was sentenced as a violent career criminal.1  See
Thompson, 25 Fla. L. Weekly at S3 (remanding for resentencing in accordance with
the valid laws in effect at the time the defendant committed her offenses).
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 - Certified
Direct Conflict of Decisions
Third District - Case No. 3D98-2784
( Dade County)
Jerry English, pro se, Milton, Florida,
for Petitioner
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Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Michael J. Neimand, Bureau Chief,
Assistant Attorney General, and Christine E. Zahralban, Assistant Attorney General,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
for Respondent