Opinion
No. 4D14–3302.
01-06-2016
STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Mariano J. VILCHEZ, Appellee.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard Valuntas, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant. No brief filed for appellee.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard Valuntas, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
No brief filed for appellee.
Opinion
PER CURIAM.
We reverse the county court's order finding the mandatory $5,000 civil penalty imposed for solicitation of prostitution under section 796.07(6), Florida Statutes (2014), to be unconstitutionally excessive. See State v. Jones, No. 4D14–3019, 2015 WL 7752702 (Fla. 4th DCA Dec. 2, 2015). We remand for the trial court to impose the statutorily mandated $5,000 civil penalty. See State v. Delgado, 717 So.2d 1053, 1053 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998) (“It is well settled that statutorily mandated fines must be imposed absent a stipulation by the state, which did not occur here.”).
Reversed and remanded.
CIKLIN, C.J., TAYLOR and LEVINE, JJ., concur.