Opinion
Case No. 4D99-0221.
Opinion filed July 5, 2000.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, St. Lucie County; C. Pfeiffer Trowbridge, Judge; L.T. Case No. 98-231 CFA.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Siobhan Helene Shea, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
Robert Johnny Jackson timely appeals after a jury convicted him of robbery with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced as a prison releasee reoffender to life in prison. He challenges that the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act violates the single subject requirement of the Florida Constitution. Notwithstanding that Jackson does not have standing to make this argument, the supremecourt has recently held that the Act is constitutional.State v. Cotton, 25 Fla. L. Weekly S463 (Fla. June 15, 2000).
He lacks standing to make this attack because he committed the instant offense on January 18, 1998; the Act was codified on May 30, 1997. Once reenacted as a portion of the Florida statutes, a chapter law is no longer subject to challenge on this ground. State v. Johnson, 616 So.2d 1, 2 (Fla. 1993).
AFFIRMED.
POLEN, KLEIN and HAZOURI, JJ., concur