Green v. State, 84-18
| Decision Date | 19 September 1984 |
| Docket Number | No. 84-18,84-18 |
| Citation | 460 So.2d 378 |
| Parties | Lee Edward GREEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Jerry Hill, Public Defender, and Robert F. Moeller, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Charles Corces, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
Lee Edward Green appeals his sentences, which are outside the presumptive sentence recommended by the new sentencing guidelines. We have jurisdiction pursuant to section 924.06(1)(e), Florida Statutes (1983).
On March 30, 1983, the state filed an information charging Green with kidnapping, aggravated battery, and armed robbery. On April 8 defendant was notified that he would be treated as a subsequent felony offender under section 775.084, Florida Statutes (1983). After pleading not guilty to all the offenses, defendant subsequently entered pleas of no contest to the three charges on October 11, the day of the trial, and affirmatively elected to be sentenced under the new sentencing guidelines. In this regard his attorney stated:
Yes, Your Honor. We are here for a trial this morning and pursuant to plea negotiations, which the State and the Court were present, we have elected to withdraw a previously entered plea of not guilty to the original Information and enter a plea of no contest at this time.
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... We received the Sentencing Guidelines and under the Guidelines as they applied to the original Information, this would be a category three sentencing procedure. And if the Court is going to impose it I understand it is included to [the] habitual offender aspect of these new Guidelines and Mr. Green's sentence would fall between the nine to twelve years range. And we would be--elected to be sentenced under that.
He is aware that had he not elected to be sentenced under the Guidelines he would be exposed to the old sentencing procedures and by my calculations, and I think probably as well, he would be exposed to life plus sixty years, and the Court would have the option at a subsequent time to retain jurisdiction over that time period or perhaps one half of that sentence.
So, as far as these areas that I have mentioned being considered, we have elected to be sentenced under the new Guidelines.
The court then adjudged defendant guilty and sentenced him to three concurrent twelve-year terms of imprisonment.
Green now argues on appeal...
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