NOVATON v. STATE

No. 91-1248.

610 So.2d 726 (1992)

Juan NOVATON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Louis Campbell, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Randall Sutton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and LEVY, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

We hold here for the first time that a defendant who enters into a negotiated plea and sentence bargain with the prosecution thereby waives an otherwise viable double jeopardy objection to sentences which form a part of the agreement.

Novaton was accused in two informations of multiple violent offenses which occurred during separate incidents in 1990. As a part of a broad agreement with the state, in which it agreed, among other things...

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