Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1998

Taylor v. State

Taylor v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided April 24, 1998 · Patterson, Quince, Whatley
709 So. 2d 641; 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 4365; 1998 WL 199348 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Taylor v. State

Opinion of the Court

PATTERSON, Acting Chief Judge.

Tonee Taylor appeals from his sentence as a violent career criminal for offenses occurring on February 18, 1996. In Thompson v. State, 708 So.2d 315 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998), this court held that chapter 95-182, Laws of Florida, which created violent career criminal sentencing, is unconstitutional as a violation of the single subject rule. Thus, based on Thompson, we reverse Taylor’s violent career criminal sentence and remand for resen-tencing in accordance with the valid laws in effect at the time of Taylor’s sentencing on July 26, 1996.

Reversed and remanded.

QUINCE and WHATLEY, JJ., concur.

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