SIMS v. STATE

No. 4D00-4129.

793 So.2d 1153 (2001)

Norman SIMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 12, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Joseph Chloupek, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Ann Dale, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STONE, J.

We reverse the final judgment adjudicating Sims guilty of both possession with intent to sell/deliver cannabis and possession of more than twenty grams of cannabis, as such amounted to double jeopardy.

The cannabis was found in a search of Sims' apartment. In his bedroom closet, the police found a plastic bag of cannabis under a pile of dirty clothes. One witness estimated that it weighed between a quarter and a half pound; another estimated that...

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