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Cromartie v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Sep 4, 2009
16 So. 3d 882 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

Opinion

No. 1D07-0352.

July 8, 2009. Rehearing Denied September 4, 2009.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County. Kathleen F. Dekker, Judge.

Michael Ufferman, of Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Natalie D. Kirk, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


We find merit in Appellant's argument that the trial judge's stated policy of mechanically rounding up a prison sentence to the nearest whole number (in this case, from 7.83 years to 8 years originally and from 6.16 years to 7 years on resentencing) without any reflection on the individual merits of a particular defendant's case is arbitrary and consequently a denial of due process. Yet we are constrained to AFFIRM as the argument was not raised contemporaneously. See Jackson v. State, 983 So.2d 562 (Fla. 2008); Brown v. State, 994 So.2d 480 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008).

VAN NORTWICK, J., concurs; HAWKES, C.J., concurs in result only.


Summaries of

Cromartie v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Sep 4, 2009
16 So. 3d 882 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)
Case details for

Cromartie v. State

Case Details

Full title:Carlos CROMARTIE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Sep 4, 2009

Citations

16 So. 3d 882 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

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