The issue here is whether the legislature, when reenacting the criminal punishments contained in chapter 99-188, Laws of Florida, after it was stricken on constitutional single subject grounds, could require the reenacted punishments to be applied retroactively to the effective date of the earlier law. We hold that it could not.
Cedric Green was adjudicated guilty of violating section 893.135(1...
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