LEWIS v. STATE

No. BK-113.

496 So.2d 211 (1986)

Alphonso LEWIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Allen, Public Defender, and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.

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


BARFIELD, Judge.

Of the several issues raised in this appeal from a conviction and sentence for second degree murder, only those involving sentencing merit discussion. We affirm the conviction, but remand for resentencing.

Appellant asserts that the judge did not prepare his own reasons for departure from the recommended guidelines sentence, but simply copied the reasons submitted by the prosecutor, and that this constitutes reversible error. In Leopard...

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