Colbert v. State

LEHAN, Judge.

This is another in the abundantly continuing flow to appellate courts in Florida of sentencing guidelines cases. This case illustrates complexities which can result from changes in the guidelines rules and in the principles governing the implementation of those rules.

Defendant was convicted of two armed robberies, as charged in two separate infor-mations, and six robberies, as charged in six separate informations. He was initially given sentences in 1984 which were departures from the guidelines in effect at the times of the offenses. Those sentences were ten years incarceration…