Johnson v. State

Appellant Tommy Lee Johnson was re-sentenced pursuant to this court’s opinion in Johnson v. State, 517 So.2d 760 (Fla. 2d *1052DCA 1987).1 After remand the trial court imposed the same sentence as before, offering the following written justification for departing from the guideline recommendation:

Defendant’s continuing, persistent, and escalating pattern of criminal conduct and his past resistance to rehabilitation clearly establishes that he has a lack of regard for the law and judicial system and is a danger to society, to-wit: past convictions for burglary, aggravated assault, robbery,…