STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT,
v.
WILFRED ELLIS PIERPONT, APPELLEE

Fla. | 1981-05-21
No. 58423
SUNDBERG, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ENGLAND, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.
398 So. 2d 1355 Florida Supreme Court (1981) Negative Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

The order of the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit granting appellee’s motion to dismiss and declaring section 893.135, Florida Statutes (1979), unconstitutional is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with State v. Benitez, 395 So. 2d 514 (Fla.1981).

It is so ordered.

SUNDBERG, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, ENGLAND, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.


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