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588 So. 2d 585

588 So.2d 585

16 Fla.L.WeeklySupp. 618

Barnes v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided September 12, 1991

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1991-09-12

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1995

3 state decisions

Relies on 517 So. 2d 670 - Davis v. State · 567 So. 2d 425 - Wilson v. State · Barnes v. State

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Decided 1991-09-12

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OVERTON, Justice.

¶1This is a petition to review Barnes v. State, 562 So.2d 729 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990), where the district court held that Barnes’ use of familial trust to effectuate the crime justified a departure sentence. We find conflict with Davis v. State, 517 So.2d 670 (Fla.1987). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.

¶2In this case, the petitioner called his wife home from work and then attempted to kill her. The trial court departed, using as one of the reasons Barnes’ use of his familial trust to accomplish this crime. In Davis, we rejected the use of a familial trust as grounds for departure under circumstances where a wife shot a husband where he was sleeping in bed. Subsequent to the district court’s decision in this case, we held, in Wilson v. State, 567 So.2d 425 (Fla.1990), that abuse of familial trust cannot justify a departure sentence in a lewd and lascivious assault of a sixteen-year-old child.

¶3Accordingly, consistent with Davisand Wilson, we quash the decision of the district court in Barnesand remand for further proceedings in accordance with Davisand Wilson. We choose not to address the other issue presented in this cause.

¶4It is so ordered.

SHAW, C.J., and McDONALD, BARKETT and KOGAN, JJ., concur.HARDING, J., dissents with an opinion, in which GRIMES, J., concurs.
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