State v. Williams

Full title: STATE OF FLORIDA, PETITIONER, v. BENNIE FRANK WILLIAMS, RESPONDENT. BENNIE…

Court: Supreme Court of Florida

Date published: Jul 9, 1987

509 So. 2d 926 (Fla. 1987)

Opinion

Nos. 69317, 69307.

July 9, 1987.

Two Consolidated Applications for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal — Certified Great Public Importance; Fifth District — Case No. 85-1858.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Kevin Kitpatrick Carson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for petitioner/respondent State of Florida.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender and Brynn Newton, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for respondent/petitioner Bennie Frank Williams.

PER CURIAM.

We review Williams v. State, 492 So.2d 1098 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986), 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.