HUNTER v. STATE

No. BI-484.

505 So.2d 4 (1986)

Ardis HUNTER, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Allen, Public Defender and Carl S. McGinnes, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Wallace A. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


ERVIN, Judge.

Appellant appeals the trial court's departure from the recommended guideline sentence. After declaring the appellant an habitual offender, the court departed from the recommended guideline sentence of seventeen to twenty-two years and imposed three concurrent life sentences and a consecutive thirty-year sentence. We find the departure to be invalid and reverse and remand.

None of the reasons stated by the trial court are valid grounds for departure...

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