Lanham v. State

We reverse the trial court’s imposition of consecutive minimum mandatory sentences for appellant’s two convictions, for assaulting two victims with a firearm, which arose out of the same criminal episode. Appellant displayed, but never fired, his weapon. See State v. Sousa, 903 So.2d 923, 926 (Fla.2005); State v. Christian, 692 So.2d 889, 890-91 (Fla.1997). In addition, there was an insufficient temporal or spatial break to constitute two separate criminal episodes. See Perry v. State, 973 So.2d 1289 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008); Roberts v. State, 990 So.2d 671, 675 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008); Irizarry v.…