STATE v. PADRON

No. 90-66.

571 So.2d 102 (1990)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Ernesto PADRON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Patricia Ann Ash, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Robert Burke, Asst. Public Defender, for appellee.

Before COPE, LEVY and GODERICH, JJ.


LEVY, Judge.

The State appeals, claiming that the trial court was in error in sentencing the defendant to a 12-year prison sentence over the State's objection, rather than sentencing the defendant to 30 years in prison which the State contends was the only sentence the court could impose on this defendant, who is an habitual offender. The State also contends that the 12-year sentence imposed by the trial court was an impermissible downward departure from the sentencing...

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