VARELA v. STATE

No. 87-25.

530 So.2d 960 (1988)

William VARELA, Rebecca Cherry, Ruben Hughes and Douglas Kudelka, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied September 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas M. Matassini, Tampa, for appellant Varela, and Robert Tarrant, Houston, Texas for appellants Kudelka, Hughes and Cherry.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Gary O. Welch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


FRANK, Judge.

The appellants appeal from convictions for racketeering, conspiracy, and trafficking arising out of their participation in an interstate cocaine distribution scheme. We have carefully considered each contention raised by the appellants. The only meritorious point concerns the sentences.

The trial court entered a written order justifying deviation from the guidelines recommended sentences based upon "the facts of the case, due to the amount of...

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