Supreme Court of Florida, 1993

State v. Hodges

Supreme Court of Florida · Decided April 15, 1993 · Barkett, Grimes, Harding, Kogan, McDonald, Overton, Shaw

616 So. 2d 994; 18 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 255; 1993 Fla. LEXIS 663; 1993 WL 113523 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Opinion of the Court

SHAW; Justice.

We have for review Hodges v. State, 596 So.2d 481 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992), wherein the district court certified a question of great public importance. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. We have since answered the question in State v. Rucker, 613 So.2d 460 (Fla. 1993).1 We quash Hodges and remand for proceedings consistent with Rucker.

It is so ordered.

BARKETT, C.J., and OVERTON, McDONALD, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.

. We decline to address the second certified question in Hodges dealing with the constitutionality of the habitual offender statute. In his brief before this Court on this issue, Hodges argues exclusively, and for the first time, that the statute is unconstitutional as applied, primarily on racial grounds. Such a challenge requiring resolution of extensive factual matters cannot be raised for the first time on appeal. Trushin v. State, 425 So.2d 1126 (Fla. 1982).

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