STATE v. YU

Nos. 57961, 58105, 58106, 58108, 58137, 58267, 58364, 58674, 58828 and 58971.

400 So.2d 762 (1981)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Esteban YU, Appellee. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Alejandro TORO, Appellee. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Gilbert MEJIA, Appellee. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Ubaldo MARULANDA, Appellee. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Dennis POLING, Appellee. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Dane Michael GRAZIANO, Aldolfo Ferreira, and Gail Rehman, Appellees. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Dania GOMEZ, Placido Bentancourt, Gustavo Calliero, and Raul Gonzalez, Appellees. State of Florida, Appellant, v. Jim WALL, III, William Gregory Wall, and Danny Russell, Appellees. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Howard LEVINSON, Dennis Romanov, and Mark Adrian Miller, Appellees. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Michael Lee HARRIS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied July 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Calvin L. Fox and Stewart J. Bellus, James S. Purdy, Asst. Attys. Gen., Miami, for appellant.

Denis Dean of Dean & Hartman, Miami, for appellee Yu.

Manuel Vazquez, Coral Gables, for appellee Toro.

William R. Tunkey of Weiner, Robbins, Tunkey & Ross, Miami, for appellees Mejia, Marulanda, and Gomez.

I. Richard Jacobs, Miami, for appellee Poling.

Melvin S. Black, Miami, and Steven Wisotsky, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Graziano.

Edward J. O'Donnell of Spain & O'Donnell, North Miami, for appellee Ferreira.

Richard A. Beiley and Benedict P. Kuehne of Bierman, Sonnett, Beiley & Shohat, Miami, for appellee Rehman.

Robert G. Kerrigan of Kerrigan, Estess & Rankin, Pensacola, for appellee Wall.

Michael D. Gelety, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Levinson.

P.D. Aiken of Aiken & Damore, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Romanov.

Arnold T. Blostein, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Miller.

Ronald K. Cacciatore, Tampa, for appellee Harris.


Rehearing Denied July 23, 1981 (58,674).

ALDERMAN, Justice.

These cases are before us on direct appeal to review orders of the trial courts granting the defendants' motions to dismiss and holding section 893.135, Florida Statutes (1979), unconstitutional. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(1), Florida Constitution (1972).

We resolved all of the constitutional issues presented by these appeals, with the exception of one, in

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