Court Opinion

ID: 7600531
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 07:00:32.19186+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:24:47.612430
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WOLF, Judge,
specially concurring.
As I stated in the opinion on the motion for rehearing in Simmons v. State, 590 So.2d 442 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991), it is necessary for the supreme court to specifically address the constitutionality and applicability of section 777.201, Florida Statutes (1987). Until the supreme court directs otherwise, it is still my belief that there is a level of police conduct which would have constituted objective entrapment pursuant to Cruz v. State, 465 So.2d 516 (Fla.1985), cert. denied, 473 U.S. 905, 105 S.Ct. 3527, 87 L.Ed.2d 652 (1985), that is not so egregious as to violate due process and which no longer constitutes entrapment after the passage of section 777.201, Florida Statutes (1987). Unless this statute is declared to be unconstitutional, we must give deference to the obvious intent of the Legislature.