Legal Opinion

Watkins v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided July 25, 1996No. 95-3351PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

ALLEN, Judge.

The appellant challenges a sentence imposed under the Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.702 sentencing guidelines. Relying on State v. Davis, 630 So.2d 1059 (Fla. 1994), the appellant contends that the sentence of community control with a term of incarceration in the county jail is a guidelines *548departure requiring written reasons. Although Davis involved an earlier version of the guidelines which authorized these sanctions only in the disjunctive, the rule 3.702 guidelines have been construed in the same manner. See Simmons v. State, 668 So.2d 654 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996); see also…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. State v. DavisSupreme Court of Florida · 1994
  2. Simmons v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996
  3. Perry v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. State v. WatkinsSupreme Court of Florida · 1997

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