Floyd v. State

Appellant, Antonio Demetrius Floyd, argues that his combined eighty-year sentence for two counts of armed robbery violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment because it constitutes the functional equivalent of a life sentence without parole for a juvenile convicted of a nonhomicide offense, which was held to be unconstitutional in Graham v. Florida, — U.S.-, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010). Finding merit in Appellant’s argument, we reverse and remand for resen-tencing.

Appellant was seventeen years of age in 1998 when he committed grand theft auto and two counts of…