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547 So. 2d 333

547 So.2d 333

14 Fla.L.Weekly 1895

Adams v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 10, 1989

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1989-08-10

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1995

1 state decisions

Relies on 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State · 547 So. 2d 613 - State v. Smith · 523 So. 2d 152 - State v. Barton

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Decided 1989-08-10

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¶1ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

COBB, Judge.

¶2We consider appellant’s motion for rehearing in light of the recent Florida Supreme Court opinion in State v. Smith, 547 So.2d 613 (Fla. 1989). That opinion requires that we apply the legal analyses explicated in Carawan v. State, 515 So.2d 161 (Fla. 1987) to cases involving crimes committed prior to July 1, 1988. The facts giving rise to the instant charges occurred on November 20, 1987.

¶3The issue is whether Adams can be validly convicted for both burglary of a conveyance with a battery therein and aggravated battery as a result of a single criminal episode involving one battery. In Cara-wan the Florida Supreme Court receded from its prior holding in State v. Rodriguez, 500 So.2d 120 (Fla.1986), which found that a defendant could be convicted of both grand theft and robbery based on the same underlying act.

¶4Under Carawana conviction of grand theft is precluded by a robbery conviction (which has theft as an element) when there is a single taking. By analogy, Adams cannot be convicted of both aggravated battery and for the battery serving as an aggravating factor of the burglary where there is only one underlying act of battery.

¶5Burglary of a conveyance accompanied by a battery upon a person is a first degree felony; aggravated battery is a second degree felony. Therefore, we vacate the aggravated battery conviction. See State v. Barton, 523 So.2d 152 (Fla.1988).

¶6Accordingly, we withdraw our previous opinion herein and substitute the foregoing opinion.

¶7AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, AND REMANDED.

DANIEL, C.J., and DAUKSCH, J., concur.
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