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Butler v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District
Jun 20, 1989
545 So. 2d 447 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)

Opinion

Nos. 88-1079, 88-1009.

June 20, 1989.

Appeals from the Circuit Court for Dade County; Howard Gross, Judge.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Elliot H. Scherker, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Joan L. Greenberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and LEVY, JJ.


As the parties agree, four of the five grounds asserted by the trial judge for the upward departure sentence imposed below are invalid. See Hester v. State, 520 So.2d 273 (Fla. 1988); McGriff v. State, 528 So.2d 396 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988), approved, 537 So.2d 107 (Fla. 1989); Solomon v. State, 528 So.2d 1367 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988). Under McGriff v. State, 537 So.2d 107 (Fla. 1989), since the crime involved occurred prior to the enactment of section 921.001(5), Florida Statutes (1987), the cause is governed by the rule of Albritton v. State, 476 So.2d 158 (Fla. 1985), that the trial court must now determine whether to depart on the basis of the one legally sufficient ground — the temporal proximity between the defendant's release from prison and the instant offense. See State v. Jones, 530 So.2d 53 (Fla. 1988). The cause is accordingly remanded for resentencing.


Summaries of

Butler v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District
Jun 20, 1989
545 So. 2d 447 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)
Case details for

Butler v. State

Case Details

Full title:ROY BUTLER, APPELLANT, v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Jun 20, 1989

Citations

545 So. 2d 447 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)

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