ORALIA BAEZ, PETITIONER,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, RESPONDENT
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Oralia Baez challenged her five-year prison sentence imposed under Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act on constitutional grounds. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the Fourth District Court of Appeal's decision, rejecting all of Baez's challenges to the Act based on prior precedent establishing the Act's constitutionality.
The Court affirmed Baez's sentence and the Fourth District Court of Appeal's decision, finding that all of Baez's constitutional challenges to the Act had been previously rejected in Grant v. State, State v. Cotton, and Ellis v. State. The Act violates none of the constitutional provisions Baez invoked.
[1] The Prison Releasee Reoffender Act does not violate ex post facto principles.
[2] The Prison Releasee Reoffender Act does not violate the single subject rule for legislation.
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Establishes that the Court is reviewing challenges to a sentence imposed under the Act based on arguments already decided in prior cases.
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LEWIS, J.
We have for review the decision in Baez v. State, 747 So. 2d 415 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. Baez challenges her five-year prison sentence under the Prison Releasee Reof-fender Act1 (“the Act”) on several grounds, all of which have been addressed by previous opinions of this Court. See Grant v. State, 770 So. 2d 655 (Fla.2000) (rejecting an ex post facto challenge to the Act and holding that the Act violates neither the single subject rule for legislation nor principles of equal protection ); State v. Cotton, 769 So. 2d 345 (Fla.2000) (holding that the Act violates neither separation of powers nor principles of due process by allowing a “victim veto” that precludes application of the Act, as well as holding that the Act is not void for vagueness and does not constitute a form of cruel or unusual punishment);2 Ellis v. State, 762 So. 2d 912 (Fla.2000) (recognizing that, “[a]s to notice, publication in the Laws of Florida or the Florida Statutes gives all citizens constructive notice of the consequences of their actions”) (quoting State v. Beasley, 580 So. 2d 139, 142 (Fla.1991)). Accordingly, the decision in Baez is approved to the extent that it is consistent with Grant, Cotton, sxiáEUis.
It is so ordered.
WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD and PARIENTE, JJ., concur. QUINCE, J., dissents with an opinion.
. See § 775.082(8), Fla. Stat. (1997).
. The district court, in affirming Baez’s sentence, cites to its decision in State v. Wise, 744 So. 2d 1035 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999), quashed, 762 So. 2d 523 (Fla.2000). In Cotton, we disapproved the decision in Wise to the extent that it was inconsistent with our opinion in Cotton.
QUINCE, J.,
dissenting.
I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in State v. Cotton, 769 So. 2d 345, 358-59 (Fla.2000).
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- Grant v. State, 770 So. 2d 655 (Fla. 2000)
- State v. Cotton, 769 So. 2d 345 (Fla. 2000)
- State v. Beasley, 580 So. 2d 139 (Fla. 1991)
- Ellis v. State, 762 So. 2d 912 (Fla. 2000)
- State v. Wise, 744 So. 2d 1035 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)
- State v. Wise, 762 So. 2d 523 (Fla. 2000)
- Green v. State, 762 So. 2d 523 (Fla. 2000)
- Abele v. Sawyer, 747 So. 2d 415 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)
- Oralia Baez v. State, 747 So. 2d 415 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)