Francis v. State

Appellant, Davon Francis (“Francis”), challenges his sentence for two counts of armed robbery, one count of attempted armed robbery, and two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. Francis argues that the trial court erred in sentencing him to an aggregate sentence of eighty-five years in prison because this sentence is the functional equivalent of life without parole and thus violates the reasoning of Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010). The Florida Supreme Court recently held in Henry v. State, 175 So.3d 675 (Fla.2015), that Graham’s constitutional…