Elias v. State

531 So.2d 418 (1988)

Peter ELIAS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 87-2686.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 28, 1988.

Hilliard Moldof of Whitelock & Moldof, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Carolyn V. McCann and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

GUNTHER, Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction for trafficking in cocaine and the resulting sentence of fifteen years minimum mandatory plus a mandatory $250,000 fine. He asserts that the trial court erred in denying his…