STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT,
v.
DEONATH SOOKRAJ, APPELLEE
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT,
DEONATH SOOKRAJ, APPELLEE
182 So. 3d 886
Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2016)
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Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
We grant the motion for rehearing, withdraw our prior order, and substitute this opinion in its place.
We reverse the county court’s order finding the mandatory $5,000 civil penalty imposed for solicitation.of prostitution under Section 796.07(6), Florida Statutes (2014), to be unconstitutionally excessive. See State v. Jones, Case No. 4D14-3019, 2015 WL 7752702 (Fla. 4th DCA Dec. 2, 2015). Because Sookraj had pled not guilty to the charge of solicitation of prostitution when the county court issued the order, we remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Reversed and Remanded.
CIKLIN, C.J., TAYLOR and CONNER, JJ., concur.
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State v. Rupert Rolle, 192 So. 3d 717 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016)…or a violation of section 796.07(2)(f), Florida Statutes, prohibiting soliciting prostitution. We have previously held that the [*718] statutory fíne is constitutional. See State v. Jones, 180 So. 3d 1085, 1090 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015); State v. Sookraj, 182 So. 3d 886, 887 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016); State v. Trotman, 186 So. 3d 43, 43 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016). Appellee’s attempts to distinguish these cases are meritless. We reverse and remand for imposition of the fíne. CIKLIN, C.J., WARNER and GERBER, JJ., concur.…