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488 So. 2d 820

488 So.2d 820

11 Fla.L.Weekly 213

Docket No. 67276.

State v. Miller

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. James Ernest MILLER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided May 8, 1986.

Rehearing Denied June 24, 1986.

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1986-05-08

Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1988

5 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“the trial court may sentence a defendant pursuant to the guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Miller v. Florida

Relies on 478 So. 2d 1054 - State v. Jackson · 468 So. 2d 1018 - Miller v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1986-05-08

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¶1Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Joy B. Shearer, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

¶2Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Anthony Calvello and Gary Caldwell, Asst. Public Defenders, 15th Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, for respondent.

¶3ADKINS, Justice.

¶4In Miller v. State, 468 So.2d 1018 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985), the court vacated Miller's sentence because he was sentenced pursuant to the guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing as opposed to the guidelines in effect at the time the crime was committed. In State v. Jackson, 478 So.2d 1054 (Fla. 1985), we held that the trial court may sentence a defendant pursuant to the guidelines in effect at the time of sentencing.

¶5Accordingly, the decision of the district court is quashed.

¶6It is so ordered.

¶7BOYD, C.J., and OVERTON and McDONALD, JJ., concur.

¶8EHRLICH, J., concurs specially with an opinion, in which SHAW, J., concurs.

¶9EHRLICH, Justice, concurring specially.

¶10I concur because of this Court's decision in State v. Jackson, 478 So.2d 1054 (Fla. 1985), but I adhere to the views expressed in my dissent therein.

¶11SHAW, J., concurs.

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