Legal Opinion
Binns v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided April 23, 2008No. 4D07-181PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
979 So.2d 439 (2008)
Leighton BINNS, Petitioner,
v.
STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 4D07-181.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
April 23, 2008.
Leighton Binns, South Bay, pro se.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and August A. Bonavita, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent.
WARNER, J.
Petitioner claims ineffective assistance of appellate counsel in failing to raise as fundamental error a violation of double jeopardy in his multiple convictions for lewd and lascivious conduct. Because two of the charges occurred during a single episode, we grant…
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