Pallas v. State

Full title: JOHN PALLAS, PETITIONER, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, RESPONDENT

Court: Supreme Court of Florida

Date published: May 4, 1995

654 So. 2d 127 (Fla. 1995)

Opinion

No. 84006.

May 4, 1995.

Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal — Direct Conflict of Decisions Third District — No. 93-1493 (Dade County).

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Manuel Alvarez, Asst. Public Defender, Miami, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Michael J. Neimand, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Parker D. Thomson and Carol A. Licko, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Miami, for respondent.

SHAW, Justice.

We have for review Pallas v. State, 636 So.2d 1358 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994), wherein the district court upheld the constitutionality of Florida's anti-stalking statute, section 784.048, Florida Statutes (Supp. 1992). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.

We have recently upheld the constitutionality of the anti-stalking statute. See Bouters v. State, No. 83,558, ___ So.2d ___ [1995 WL 242403] (Fla. Apr. 27, 1995). Accordingly, we approve the decision in Pallas on this issue.

It is so ordered.

GRIMES, C.J., and OVERTON, HARDING, WELLS and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.

KOGAN, J., concurs specially with an opinion.

KOGAN, Justice, specially concurring.

With the exception of the reservations that I stated in Bouters v. State, No. 83,558, ___ So.2d ___ [1995 WL 242403] (Fla. Apr. 27, 1995), (Kogan, J., specially concurring), I concur with majority.