Sessions v. State, No. 90-2186
| Court | Court of Appeal of Florida (US) |
| Writing for the Court | Before SCHWARTZ; SCHWARTZ; GERSTEN; HUBBART |
| Citation | 597 So.2d 832 |
| Parties | Anthony SESSIONS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee. 597 So.2d 832, 17 Fla. L. Week. D511 |
| Decision Date | 18 February 1992 |
| Docket Number | No. 90-2186 |
Page 832
v.
The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
597 So.2d 832, 17 Fla. L. Week. D511
Third District.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dade County; Allen Kornblum, Judge.
Page 833
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Lydia A. Fernandez, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Jorge Espinosa, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and GERSTEN, JJ.
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
After a jury trial, the appellant was convicted of second degree murder with a firearm and possession of a firearm in the commission of the second degree murder. While the only substantive point is frivolous, two other issues require further treatment.
1. On the authority of Lamont v. State, 597 So.2d 823 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992), the life sentence without parole imposed upon Sessions for the life felony of second degree murder with a firearm is affirmed under section 775.084(4)(e), Florida Statutes (1989) of the habitual offender act. The fifteen year minimum mandatory provision is, however, vacated. See Lamont, 597 So.2d at 829. We make the same certifications of conflict as those contained in the Lamont opinion.
2. The separate judgment and sentence for possession of the firearm are set aside on the authority of Cleveland v. State, 587 So.2d 1145 (Fla.1991). Accord Davis v. State, 590 So.2d 496 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991).
Affirmed in part; reversed in part.
GERSTEN, J., concurs.
HUBBART, Judge (concurring).
I think the trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to life imprisonment without parole [with a fifteen-year mandatory minimum term] as a habitual violent felony offender under Section 775.084, Florida Statutes (1989), for the life felony of second-degree murder with a firearm; this is so because the Habitual Offender Act contains no extended terms of imprisonment for a life felony conviction as here. Accordingly, the sentence under review should be reversed and the cause remanded to the trial court with directions to resentence the defendant under the sentencing guidelines, rather than the Habitual Offender Act. This result reflects the views which I expressed in my dissenting opinion in Lamont v. State, 597 So.2d 823 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992) (case nos. 89-2917 and 90-1419, opinion filed this date) (en banc) (Hubbart, J., dissenting) and is in accord with decisions of the First, Second, Fourth and...
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