Opinion
No. 4D99-893..
Opinion filed May 31, 2000.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Richard L. Oftedal, Judge; L.T. Case No. 98-3424 CFA02.
Craig A. Boudreau, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Steven R. Parrish, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
We affirm.
We also certify the same question certified in Simmons v. State, 24 Fla. L. Weekly D1830 (Fla. 4th DCA Aug. 4, 1999), as one of great public importance:
DOES THE PRISON RELEASEE REOFFENDER PUNISHMENT ACT, CODIFIED AS SECTION 775.082(8), FLORIDA STATUTES (1997), VIOLATE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS CLAUSE OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION?
WARNER, C.J., STONE and POLEN, JJ., concur.