Legal Opinion

Bennett v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided May 21, 2001No. 1D00-2305PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Per curiam

Appellant seeks review of his life sentence, pursuant to the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, for robbery with a deadly weapon. He acknowledges that our prior decisions in Brown v. State, 24 Fla. L. Weekly D2753, — So.2d-, 1999 WL 1112715 (Fla. 1st DCA Dec.8, 1999), and Knight v. State, 791 So.2d 490, rehearing granted in part (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), review pending, No. SC-001987 (Fla. Sept. 21, 2000), mandate an affirmance unless we recede from them. We decline to do so. However, as in Knight, we certify the following question as one of great public importance:

DOES SECTION 775.082(9)(A)3A,…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Brown v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1999
  2. Knight v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2000

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Stabile v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001
  2. Johnson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001
  3. Jackson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001

Showing a preview — retrieve the full document via the Exa API.

Powered by the Exa API