Allen v. State

WOLF, Judge.

We are faced with one issue in this case: Whether appellant’s convictions and sentences for the offenses of armed robbery, armed kidnapping, and armed burglary, committed with the same firearm during the same criminal episode, constitute impermissible, multiple punishments for the same offense. The issue might be restated as whether the case of State v. Stearns, 645 So.2d 417 (Fla.1994), and its progeny, require us to reverse two of the convictions in the instant case.

In Steams, supra, the supreme court stated, “In Brown we held [referring to State v. *234Brown, 633 So.2d 1059…