Bailey Jr. v. State

Guy Bailey, Jr., appeals his conviction for grand theft, the act of theft being the pillage of $700,000 held by him in trust for his clients. The State cross-appeals the downward departure sentence imposed by the trial court, which spared Bailey jail time for his infraction. On these two appeals, we affirm the conviction but reverse the downward departure sentence with the direction to the trial court to impose a guidelines sentence on Bailey of between twenty-one months and thirty years,- as calculated on his Criminal Punishment Code Scoresheet. A fortiori, we also reverse the more recent…