State of Florida v. Kevon Trotman

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FOURTH DISTRICT

STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. KEVON TROTMAN, Appellee. No. 4D15-564 [February 17, 2016]

Appeal from the County Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Robert Diaz, Judge; L.T. Case No. 14-16363MM10A.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Richard Valuntas, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

No brief filed for appellee.

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. Vachon, 4D15-424, 2016 WL 65080 (Fla. 4th DCA Jan. 6, 2016); State v. Jones, No. 4D14-3019, 2015 WL 7752702 (Fla. 4th DCA Dec. 2, 2015). CIKLIN, C.J., GERBER, J., and JOHNSON, LAURA, Associate Judge, concur.

* * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.