Opinion
No. 1D98-997.
Opinion filed April 17, 2000.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County, J. Lewis Hall, Jr., Judge.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Archie F. Gardner, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, Attorneys for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Laura Fullerton Lopez, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, Attorneys for Appellee.
This court has rejected Appellant's numerous challenges to the constitutionality of the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act. See Chambers v. State, 25 Fla. L. Weekly D387 (Fla. 1st DCA Feb. 11, 2000); Turner v. State, 745 So.2d 351 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999), rev. granted (Fla. Feb. 3, 2000); Woods v. State, 740 So.2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA), rev. granted, 740 So.2d 529 (Fla. 1999). We therefore affirm Appellant's judgment and sentence. As in Woods, we certify the following question as a matter of great public importance:
DOES THE PRISON RELEASEE REOFFENDER PUNISHMENT ACT, CODIFIED AS SECTION 775.082(8), FLORIDA STATUTES (1997), VIOLATE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS CLAUSE OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION?
ERVIN, BOOTH and BENTON, JJ., CONCUR.