Legal Opinion

Peters v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 10, 2016No. 4D14-1838Published

1Opinion of the CourtGross, J.

In 1991, appellant was sentenced to a series of lengthy consecutive sentences for a number of crimes committed in 1989, including 6 counts of armed robbery., A motion for postconviction relief demonstrated a problem with the original sentence, so in 2011, appellant was resen-tenced to concurrent 99-year prison terms for each armed robbery count, nunc pro tunc to October 4, 1991. See Peters v. State, 128 So.3d 832, 840 (Fla. 4th. DCA 2013). Due to “an anomaly that arose from the application of 1989 statutes after the decision in Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  2. State v. RabedeauSupreme Court of Florida · 2009
  3. Peters v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2013
  4. Gisi v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2009
  5. Flowers v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2015

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