Supreme Court of Florida

Florida's Criminal Punishment Code does not invite discriminatory sentencing in violation of due process, does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment or implicate double jeopardy principles, and does not violate rights to court access and appeal, or Apprendi.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/03/2002
• Published 07/03/2002

Judges

• SHAW, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer and Joel Arnold, Assistant Public Defenders, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Charmaine E. Millsaps, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.