STATE v. SORRENTINO

No. 91-00352.

596 So.2d 1290 (1992)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Patrick Joseph SORRENTINO, Jr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Dell H. Edwards, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.

No brief filed by appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The issue on appeal is the constitutionality of a section of the witness tampering statute, section 914.22(1)(b), Florida Statutes (1989). The trial court granted defendant's motion to dismiss the charge finding section 914.22(1)(b) unconstitutional.

We find that the reasons for the decision in State v. Cohen, 568 So.2d 49 (Fla. 1990), when it declared subsections (1)(a) and (3) unconstitutional, do not...

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