Spencer v. State

• Decision Date: 05 November 2021
• Docket Number: No. 2D20-900,2D20-900
• Citation: 328 So.3d 392 (Mem)
• Parties: Tavares Wayntell SPENCER Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
• Court: Florida District Court of Appeals

328 So.3d 392 (Mem)

Tavares Wayntell SPENCER Jr., Appellant,

v.STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 2D20-900

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

November 5, 2021

Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Pamela H. Izakowitz, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jonathan S. Tannen, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. Bailey v. State , 277 So. 3d 173, 176-77 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019) ; Hall v. State , 319 So. 3d 691, 695-97 (Fla. 3d DCA 2021) ; Martinez v. State , 256 So. 3d 897, 900 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018) ; Montgomery v. State , 230 So. 3d 1256, 1263 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017).

MORRIS, C.J., and LABRIT, J., Concur.

ATKINSON, J., Concurs in result only with opinion.

ATKINSON, J., Concurring.

I concur in result only. See Pedroza v. State , 291 So. 3d 541, 545, 548 (Fla. 2020) (holding that a sentence imposed "without individualized consideration of the offender's ‘youth and its attendant characteristics’ ... does not implicate ... Miller , unless it meets the threshold requirement of being a life sentence or the functional equivalent of a life sentence" (quoting Miller v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460, 465, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012) )).