Opinion
No. 96-03419
Opinion filed April 24, 1998.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County; Robert J. Simms, Judge.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Richard J. Sanders, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
Tonee Taylor appeals from his sentence as a violent career criminal for offenses occurring on February 18, 1996. InThompson v. State, 23 Fla. L. Weekly D713 (Fla. 2d DCA Mar. 13, 1998), this court held that chapter 95-182, Laws of Florida, which created violent career criminal sentencing, is unconstitutional as a violation of the single subject rule. Thus, based on Thompson, we reverse Taylor's violent career criminal sentence and remand for resentencing in accordance with the valid laws in effect at the time of Taylor's sentencing on July 26, 1996.
Reversed and remanded.
QUINCE and WHATLEY, JJ., Concur.