JEFFERSON v. STATE

No. BI-38.

489 So.2d 860 (1986)

Shirley Ann JEFFERSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde M. Collins, Jr., of Cotney & Collins, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Barbara Ann Butler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jacksonville, for appellee.


SHIVERS, Judge.

This is another case in which the trial court imposed a sentence outside the range recommended by the sentencing guidelines. We reverse and remand for resentencing on the basis that the court used impermissible reasons for departure.

The appellant, Shirley Jefferson, is a 25-year-old mother of three children. On June 28, 1984, she was charged with the second-degree murder of her two-year-old daughter, Priscilla. An amended information was later...

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