Boyd v. State

HERSEY, Chief Judge.

James Mose Boyd was convicted of one count of kidnapping and four counts of sexual battery. He was sentenced to three consecutive and two concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Each sentence included a twenty-five-year mandatory minimum. The issue on appeal is the propriety of the consecutive mandatory minimum sentences.

During the course of a single criminal episode appellant sexually molested an eight-year-old male child by performing four different and distinct acts of depraved sexual conduct. As we view the present status of Florida law, which we will shortly examine,…