Opinion
No. 1D99-1058
Opinion filed March 23, 2000.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County, Janet E. Ferris, Judge.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender; Kathleen Stover, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Charmaine M. Millsaps, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
AFFIRMED. See Jackson v. State, 744 So.2d 466 (Fla. 1st DCA), rev. granted, (Fla. Dec. 15, 1999) (No. 96,308); Woods v. State, 740 So.2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA), rev. granted, 740 So.2d 529 (Fla. 1999). As we did in Woods, we certify the following question to the Florida Supreme Court:
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?
MINER, BENTON and BROWNING, JJ., CONCUR.