State v. Malone

Full title: STATE OF FLORIDA, PETITIONER, v. KEVIN MICHAEL MALONE, RESPONDENT

Court: Supreme Court of Florida

Date published: Sep 17, 1987

512 So. 2d 832 (Fla. 1987)

Opinion

No. 70167.

September 17, 1987.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Davis G. Anderson, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for petitioner.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, and John T. Kilcrease, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

We review Malone v. State, 508 So.2d 362 (Fla. 2d DCA, 1987), to answer the certified question of whether retroactive application of the penalty provisions of section 27.3455, Florida Statutes (1985), violates the ex post facto provisions of the United States and Florida Constitutions. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. We answer in the affirmative and approve the decision below on the authority of State v. Yost, 507 So.2d 1099 (Fla. 1987).

It is so ordered.

McDONALD, C.J., and OVERTON, EHRLICH, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.