State v. Rodriguez, SC04-390.

• Decision Date: 23 June 2005
• Docket Number: No. SC04-390.,SC04-390.
• Citation: 920 So.2d 624
• Parties: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Alberto RODRIGUEZ, Appellee.
• Court: Florida Supreme Court

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920 So.2d 624

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Alberto RODRIGUEZ, Appellee.

No. SC04-390.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 23, 2005.

An Appeal from the District Court of Appeal — Statutory or Constitutional Invalidity, Third District — Case No. 3D01-2332 (Dade County).

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Richard L. Polin, Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, Miami, FL, and Barbara A. Zappi, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Appellant.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Robert Godfrey, Assistant Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, FL, for Appellee.

WELLS, J.

We have on appeal a decision of the Third District Court of Appeal declaring invalid a state statute. Rodriguez v. State, 906 So.2d 1082 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004). Rodriguez also expressly and directly conflicts with the decision in Sult v. State, 839 So.2d 798 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), (3), Fla. Const.

For the reasons stated in our opinion in Sult v. State, 906 So.2d 1013 (Fla. 2005), we affirm the decision of the Third District in Rodriguez.

It is so ordered.

PARIENTE, C.J., and ANSTEAD, LEWIS, and QUINCE, JJ., concur.

CANTERO and BELL, JJ., dissent.