SC03-413 - Corey Franklin V. State Of Florida

State: Florida

Docket No: SC03-413

Case Date: 09/30/2004

Preview:Supreme Court of Florida
____________ No. SC03-413 ____________ COREY FRANKLIN, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. [September 30, 2004] CORRECTED OPINION PARIENTE, C.J. The issue in this case is the constitutionality of chapter 99-188, Laws of Florida (the "Act"), designated by the Legislature as the "Three-Strike Violent Felony Offender Act." The specific constitutional question presented is whether the fourteen provisions of the Act "embrace but one subject and matter properly connected therewith" as mandated by article III, section 6 of the Florida Constitution, the single subject clause. 1 We have jurisdiction based on certified

1. "Every law shall embrace but one subject and matter properly connected therewith, and the subject shall be briefly expressed in the title." Art. III,

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