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499 So. 2d 831

499 So.2d 831

12 Fla.L.Weekly 63

Patterson v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 5, 1987

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1987-01-05

Relies on 478 So. 2d 1054 - State v. Jackson · 491 So. 2d 276 - Bender v. First Fidelity Savings & Loan Ass'n of Winter Park · 480 So. 2d 213 - Wilkerson v. State

Decided 1987-01-05

PER CURIAM.

¶1The district court in Patterson v. State, 486 So.2d 74 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986), found error in the trial court’s departure from the sentencing guidelines. Recognizing, however, that the sentence would not be a departure under the amended guidelines pursuant to State v. Jackson, 478 So.2d 1054 (Fla.1985), the court found the error *832to be harmless, affirmed the sentence, and certified the same question as that certified in Wilkerson v. State, 480 So.2d 213, 215 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985), and Carter v. State, 483 So.2d 740, 741 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986): *

WHETHER ALL SENTENCING GUIDELINES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED PROCEDURAL IN NATURE SO THAT THE GUIDELINES AS MOST RECENTLY AMENDED SHALL BE APPLIED AT THE TIME OF SENTENCING WITHOUT REGARD TO THE EX POST FACTO DOCTRINE.

¶2486 So.2d at 76, n. 1. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

¶3We recently answered the certified question in the affirmative in Wilkerson v. State, 494 So.2d 210 (Fla.1986), on the authority of Jackson. In accordance therewith, we approve the result reached by the district court.

¶4It is so ordered.

McDonald, C.J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, EHRLICH, SHAW and BARKETT, JJ., concur.

¶5This Court dismissed administratively a subsequent petition for review in Carter v. State, 491 So.2d 278 (Fla.1986).

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