STATE v. WILLIAMS

No. 66288.

477 So.2d 570 (1985)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Edward Lee WILLIAMS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 17, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Joan Fowler Rossin, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender and Tatjana Ostapoff, Asst. Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, for respondent.


OVERTON, Justice.

This is a petition to review Williams v. State, 462 So.2d 23 (Fla. 4th DCA 1984), remanding respondent's case for resentencing because of the trial court's use of prior convictions as the reason for departure from the sentencing guidelines and certifying the following question as a matter of great public importance:

If the scoresheets make provision for prior convictions, can those convictions also...

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