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540 So. 2d 132

540 So.2d 132

14 Fla.L.Weekly 529

Bernadini v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided February 23, 1989

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1989-02-23

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1991

3 state decisions

Relies on State v. Hall

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Decided 1989-02-23

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SHARP, Chief Judge.

¶1Bernadini appeals his sentence which was imposed after he was convicted of trafficking in cocaine in an amount exceeding twenty-eight grams in violation of section 893.135(1)(b)1, Florida Statutes, (1987). He was sentenced within the guidelines range to four years incarceration. However, the trial court imposed a three year minimum mandatory sentence within the four-year term, pursuant to section 893.-135(1)(b)1, Florida Statutes (1987).

¶2The question in this case is whether Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.701.d.9., which provides that the guidelines sentence takes precedence if it exceeds the mandatory penalty, eliminates the necessity to impose a statutory mandatory minimum sentence. For the reasons stated in State v. Hall & Peterson, 538 So.2d 468 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989), we do not think the reference to a three year minimum mandatory sentence in this case is meaningful or substantive. By sentencing Bernadini to four years, the trial judge more than complied with section 893.135(1)(b)1. That statute is also binding on the Parole and Probation Commission as to parole (see § 947.16(2)(g)) and administrative gain time (§ 944.-276(l)(a)).1

¶3Because we regard the three year minimum mandatory sentence as surplusage, we affirm.

¶4AFFIRM.

COWART and DANIEL, JJ., concur.

¶5. Incentive gain time provided for by § 944.275 does not exclude trafficking offenses under § 893.135(1)(b)1., so it may be earned without regard to any minimum mandatory sentence language.

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