Legal Opinion

Pina v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided November 25, 1985No. Nos. 67014, 67105PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

McDONALD, Justice.

In Pina v. State, 468 So.2d 475, 477 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985), the district court certified the following question: “When a defendant is convicted of felony murder, can he be convicted of, although not sentenced for, the underlying felony?” 1 The court vacated Pina’s convictions and sentences for robbery and also held that Pina’s two minimum mandatory twenty-five-year sentences before parole for first-degree murder would have to be concurrent rather than consecutive as directed by the trial court. We recently considered these two points in State v. Enmund, 476 So.2d 165…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. EnmundSupreme Court of Florida · 1985
  2. Pina v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1985

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. State v. BoatwrightSupreme Court of Florida · 1990
  2. Boatwright v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
  3. Simmons v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1986

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