Moore v. State

We have for review the decision in Moore v. State, 729 So.2d 541 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999), in which the district court, as it did in Woods v. State, 740 So.2d 20 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999), certified the following question:

DOES THE PRISON RELEASEE REOFFENDER PUNISHMENT ACT, CODIFIED AS SECTION 775.082(8), FLORIDA STATUTES (1997), VIOLATE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS CLAUSE OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION?

We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

*322We recently approved the First District’s opinion in Woods, holding that the Prisoner Releasee Reoffender Act, as properly interpreted by the First…