State v. Myers
| Decision Date | 16 July 1998 |
| Docket Number | No. 91251,91251 |
| Citation | 713 So.2d 1013 |
| Parties | 23 Fla. L. Weekly S400 STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Michael MYERS, Respondent. |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Celia A. Terenzio, Assistant Attorney General, Chief, West Palm Beach Bureau, and Melynda L. Melear, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for Petitioner.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Louis G. Carres, Assistant Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, for Respondent.
We have for review Myers v. State, 696 So.2d 893 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), based on conflict with Mays v. State, No. 90,826, --- So.2d ---- (Fla. July 16, 1998). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. We quash Myers.
Michael Myers, who was fifteen years old at the time, raped and sodomized his seventy-nine year old Alzheimer's-stricken grandmother on June 11, 1995. He pled guilty to three counts of sexual battery and two counts of battery. His median recommended sentence 1 under the guidelines was 16.75 years, and his recommended range was between 12.6 and 20.9 years. The statutory maximum sentence for sexual battery is 15 years. The court sentenced him to three 18-year terms on the sexual battery counts and two five-year terms on the battery counts, all to be served concurrently. The district court reversed, ruling that the trial court erred in exceeding the statutory maximum. The State claims that the trial court properly exceeded the statutory maximum. We agree.
We addressed this issue in Mays v. State, No. 90,826, --- So.2d ---- (Fla. July 16, 1998), wherein we construed the 1994 amendment to the sentencing guidelines. We held that if the guidelines sentence--i.e., the "true" recommended guidelines sentence--exceeds the statutory maximum, the court is authorized to impose the guidelines sentence. In the present case, the "true" recommended guidelines sentence, i.e., 18 years, exceeds the statutory maximum, i.e., 15 years. The court thus was authorized to impose the guidelines sentence. We quash Myers.
It is so ordered.
For the reasons expressed in my concurring in part and dissenting in part opinion in Mays v. State, No. 90,826, --- So.2d ---- (Fla. July 16, 1998), I concur in part and dissent in part. Accordingly, in my opinion, the maximum...
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