Cox v. State

ON RECONSIDERATION ON MANDATE FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA

The Supreme Court of Florida quashed this court’s previous opinion1 and remanded for reconsideration in light of its decision in Banks v. State, 887 So.2d 1191 (Fla.2004).

In three different lower tribunal cases, pursuant to a negotiated plea, Tyrone Rafael Cox (Defendant) received sentences of either twenty or fifteen years, followed by terms of probation, for offenses committed after October 1, 1995, and before May 24, 1997 — sentences which constituted a downward departure from his 1995 sentencing guidelines scoresheet — which…