Barnes v. State

Full title: KELVIN BARNES, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Mar 21, 2000

752 So. 2d 1284 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

Opinion

No. 1D98-2506.

Opinion filed March 21, 2000.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County, J. Lewis Hall, Jr., Judge.

Nancy Daniels, Public Defender, and Carol Ann Turner, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Denise O. Simpson, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant was sentenced as a prison releasee reoffender, and he has raised two arguments that the Prison Releasee Reoffender Punishment Act, section 775.082(8), Florida Statutes (1997), is unconstitutional. We have previously addressed both of these challenges and found them each to be without merit.See Chambers v. State, 25 Fla. L. Weekly D387 (Fla. 1st DCA Feb. 11, 2000). However, we certify the same question previously certified in Woods v. State, 740 So.2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA), review granted, 740 So.2d 529 (Fla. 1999).

AFFIRMED.

MINER, BENTON and BROWNING, JJ. CONCUR.