BENTLEY v. STATE

No. 68014.

501 So.2d 600 (1987)

Rose BENTLEY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Robert A. Butterworth, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Lee Rosenthal, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.


ADKINS, Justice.

We have for review Bentley v. State, 477 So.2d 1087 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985), in which the district court certified the following question:

Does the display of an unloaded firearm, without proof of readily available ammunition, with accompanying threats to use the firearm during the commission of an aggravated assault, invoke the three year mandatory sentencing provision of section 775.087(2), Florida...

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