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STATE v. BLECKINGER

Nos. 99-246, 99-247, 99-274 and 99-404.

746 So.2d 553 (1999)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Samuel Jay BLECKINGER, Eric Omega Chappell, Richard Michael Niemiec, and Tony Anderson, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

December 13, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Belle B. Schumann, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Barbara C. Davis, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellees Bleckinger, Chappell, and Niemiec.

Drew A. Cooper, Ocala, for Appellee Anderson.

W. SHARP, J.

The state appeals from downward departure sentences in four cases in which Judge Swigert was the sentencing judge On appeal, the cases were consolidated because in all four, no written reasons were given for the departures, although oral reasons were stated at the hearings.1 The reasons given for the departure sentences in these cases are the same; remorse, cooperation with the prosecution, and the need for restitution in...

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