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868 So. 2d 1290

Docket No. 4D03-97.

Jackson v. State

Royal JACKSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2004-04-07

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2013

7 state decisions

Relies on 780 So. 2d 17 - Gordon v. State

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Decided 2004-04-07

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¶1Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Joseph R. Chloupek, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

¶2Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Don M. Rogers, Assistant *1291 Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

¶3FARMER, C.J.

¶4The state concedes that defendant could not be adjudicated for both attempted first degree premeditated murder and attempted felony murder for the same killing. See Gordon v. State,780 So.2d 17 (Fla.2001) (noting that dual convictions for attempted premeditated murder and attempted felony murder violate double jeopardy). We accept the state's concession. As the state apparently recognizes, this constitutional problem cannot be avoided by simply making the alternative ways to commit first degree murder an attempt rather than the completed act. We therefore reverse the attempted premeditated murder conviction.

¶5We reject the double jeopardy argument as to the convictions involving sexual acts. The dual convictions for sexual battery and unlawful sexual activity with a minor involve different elements. Sexual battery requires a lack of consent and the use, or threat of use, of a weapon or the actual use of force likely to cause personal injury. Unlawful sexual activity with a minor does not involve any issue of consent or threats or force. Therefore, on all other issues we affirm defendant's multiple convictions.

¶6GUNTHER and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.

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