Legal Opinion

Shortridge v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided May 22, 1996No. 94-04227PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellant, convicted of first degree felony murder and robbery with a firearm, challenges his convictions and his sentence. We find no reversible error in appellant’s convictions, but remand to correct certain sentencing errors.

Appellant was sentenced to life for the murder conviction, followed by a consecutive seventeen-year term for the robbery conviction. Under Ivey v. State, 633 So.2d 530, 531 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994), ‘when the guidelines recommend a life sentence and the trial court imposes life plus a consecutive term of years, such sentence is a departure requiring written…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Torres-Arboledo v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1988
  2. Lutz v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1995
  3. Ivey v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1994

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Davis v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1997

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