Legal Opinion

Jordan v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided April 23, 1997No. 95-04389Published

1Per curiam

We affirm the appellant’s judgment for attempted first degree murder committed on April 20,1985, and the aspect of the sentencing order that revokes his probation. We remand, however, for resentencing, because the trial court departed beyond the one-cell bump for the violation of probation when it imposed forty years in prison in 1995.

Based on the record before us, we are unaware of any other substantive offenses for which the appellant was being sentenced in 1995. The attempted first degree murder occurred before the effective date of the permitted ranges, July 1, 1988. See Watts v. State,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Watts v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1991

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