STATE v. GREEN

No. 3D08-645.

12 So.3d 796 (2009)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. James GREEN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 6, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Heidi Milan Caballero, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Howard K. Blumberg, Assistant Public Defender, for appellee.

Before COPE, SHEPHERD, and SUAREZ, JJ.


COPE, J.

The State of Florida (the "State") appeals defendant-appellee James Green's downward departure sentence. We affirm.

The State claims that the downward departure sentence of defendant Green was error because the State objected to the sentence and the trial court failed to provide written reasons in support of the downward departure. The defendant argues that the matter was not properly preserved by an objection which was sufficiently precise to fairly...

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