State v. Cotton
| Decision Date | 02 April 1992 |
| Docket Number | No. 79015,79015 |
| Parties | STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Larry COTTON, Respondent. 595 So.2d 957, 17 Fla. L. Week. S222 |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal--Certified Direct Conflict of Decisions, Third District--Case No. 90-2620 (Dade County).
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Marc E. Brandes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, for petitioner.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Cynthia A. Greenfield, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Coral Gables, for respondent.
We approve Cotton v. State, 588 So.2d 694 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991), on the authority of Burdick v. State, 594 So.2d 267 (Fla.1992).
It is so ordered.
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White v. State, 91-3959
...judgment and sentence specified any minimum mandatory sentence. As in Cotton v. State, 588 So.2d 694, 695 (Fla. 3d DCA1991), aff'd, 595 So.2d 957 (Fla.1992), the record is not clear as to whether the trial court based Appellant's eventual sentence on the state's arguments and the belief tha......
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Daniels v. State, s. 91-2458
...when sentencing a defendant as a habitual violent felony offender. Cotton v. State, 588 So.2d 694 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991), aff'd, 595 So.2d 957 (Fla.1992). Accordingly, we reverse the sentences imposed upon Daniels and Cochran and remand for a new sentencing hearing. We also find that the remain......
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Miller v. State, s. 91-1743
...for such sentences. See Burdick v. State, 594 So.2d 267 (Fla.1992); Cotton v. State, 588 So.2d 694 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991), approved, 595 So.2d 957 (Fla.1992); State v. Padron, 571 So.2d 102 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990); McNair v. State, 563 So.2d 804 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990); see also Oyler v. Boles, 368 U.S. ......
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Davis v. State, 93-2355
...267 (Fla.1992); Daniels v. State, 634 So.2d 187 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994); Cotton v. State, 588 So.2d 694 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991), approved, 595 So.2d 957 (Fla.1992). Because of this judicial discretion, Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure, Rule 3.720(b), requires the trial court to allow a defendant to......
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