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630 So. 2d 526

630 So.2d 526

18 Fla.L.WeeklySupp. 543

Penton v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided October 14, 1993

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1993-10-14

Relies on 630 So. 2d 521 - Hale v. State · 609 So. 2d 1295 - Funchess v. State · Penton v. State

Decided 1993-10-14

OVERTON, Judge.

¶1We have for review Penton v. State, 605 So.2d 1319 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992), in which the district court reversed Penton’s consecutive habitual violent felony offender sentences and remanded with directions that Penton’s sentences be imposed to run concurrently. The district court also certified the same question we answered in Tillman v. State, 609 So.2d 1295 (Fla.1992).1 In accordance *527with our decision in Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1993), we approve the district court’s reversal of Penton’s consecutive sentences. On the authority of Tillman, we answer the certified question in the negative.

¶2It is so ordered.

BARKETT, C.J., and McDONALD, SHAW, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.

¶3. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

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