
    Leonard McKINNEY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. SC00-519.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Oct. 4, 2001.
    
      Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Fred Parker Bingham II, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Charmaine M. Millsaps, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

We have for review a decision on the following question certified to be of great public importance:

DOES THE PRISON RELEASEE REOFFENDER PUNISHMENT ACT, CODIFIED AS SECTION 775.082(8), FLORIDA STATUTES (1997), VIOLATE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS CLAUSE OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION?

McKinney v. State, 751 So.2d 766 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

In State v. Cotton, 769 So.2d 345 (Fla.2000), we answered the certified question in the negative. We therefore discharge jurisdiction.

It is so ordered.

WELLS, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, LEWIS, and QUINCE, JJ., concur.  