Legal Opinion

Wells v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 19, 1997No. 96-3114PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Per curiam

Reginald Wells (Wells) was convicted of two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, two counts of resisting arrest with violence, one count of reckless driving, and one count of driving with a' suspended license. The trial judge imposed concurrent county jail sentences for each conviction. In Pierce v. State, 681 So.2d 873 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996), this court held that only one conviction for resisting an officer with violence is permitted in connection with a single criminal episode or incident. Accordingly, we reverse and remand with instructions that one of Wells’s convictions for…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Pierce v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Jones v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1998
  2. Morris v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1998
  3. State v. WellsSupreme Court of Florida · 1999
  4. Woods v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1998

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