Legal Opinion

Hill v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 11, 1989No. 88-1137Published

1Per curiam

The state concedes that appellant’s convictions for both sale and delivery of cocaine and trafficking in cocaine violated double jeopardy prohibitions. In light of Spadaro v. State, 539 So.2d 1169 (Fla.2d DCA), jurisdiction accepted, 547 So.2d 1211 (Fla.1989) and Garrison v. State, 530 So.2d 365 (Fla.5th DCA 1988) (for double jeopardy purposes, sale and delivery is a lesser included offense of trafficking), we vacate appellant’s sale and delivery of cocaine conviction. But we affirm appellant’s trafficking in cocaine conviction on the authority of Asmer v. State, 416 So.2d 485 (Fla.4th DCA…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Asmer v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982
  2. Garrison v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1988
  3. Spadaro v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1989

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