State v. Pineda

Full title: STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. GIOVANNI PINEDA, Appellee.

Court: DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT

Date published: Aug 10, 2016

196 So. 3d 1282 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2016)

Opinion

No. 4D15–4658.

08-10-2016

STATE of florida, Appellant, v. Giovanni PINEDA, Appellee.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard Valuntas, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Benjamin Eisenberg, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard Valuntas, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Benjamin Eisenberg, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

We reverse the county court's order finding the mandatory $5,000 civil penalty imposed for solicitation of prostitution under section 796.07(6), Florida Statutes (2014), to be unconstitutionally excessive. See State v. Jones, 180 So.3d 1085 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015). We remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

Reversed and remanded.

GERBER, CONNER and KLINGENSMITH, JJ., concur.