Goodson v. State

Full title: JAMES BYRON GOODSON, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District

Date published: Dec 4, 1992

608 So. 2d 943 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992)

Opinion

No. 92-185.

December 4, 1992.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Seminole County; Newman D. Brock, Judge.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and John S. Lynch, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Nancy Ryan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.

COBB, Judge.

Affirmed. As in Butler v. State, 608 So.2d 33 (Fla. 5th DCA 1992) we certify as being of great public importance the following question to our supreme court:

WHETHER THE CHAPTER 89-280 AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 775.084(1)(A)1, FLORIDA STATUTES (1989), WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRIOR TO THEIR REENACTMENT AS PART OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES, BECAUSE THEY WERE IN VIOLATION OF THE SINGLE SUBJECT RULE OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION.

We note that the supreme court has accepted jurisdiction to answer this question. McCall v. State, 593 So.2d 1052 (Fla. 1992).

AFFIRMED; QUESTION CERTIFIED.

COWART and DIAMANTIS, JJ., concur.