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666 So. 2d 130

666 So.2d 130

20 Fla.L.WeeklySupp. 509

State v. Champagne

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided October 5, 1995

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1995-10-05

Relies on Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · 630 So. 2d 521 - Hale v. State · 660 So. 2d 1384 - Ratcliffe v. State

Decided 1995-10-05

OVERTON, Justice.

¶1We have for review Champagne v. State, 651 So.2d 1217 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995), in which the district court vacated Bob Michael Champagne’s sentence and certified the following question as being one of great public importance:

Whether Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1993), cert. denied, [— U.S. -, 115 S.Ct. 278, 130 L.Ed.2d 195 (1994)], precludes under all circumstances the imposition of consecutive sentences for crimes arising from a single criminal episode for *131habitual felony or habitual violent felony offenders.

¶2We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. In State v. Hill, 660 So.2d 1384 (Fla.1995), we have answered this same certified question in the affirmative. For the reasons set forth in Hill, we approve the district court’s decision in the instant case.

¶3It is so ordered.

GRIMES, C.J., and SHAW, KOGAN, HARDING and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.

¶4WELLS, J., dissents.

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