STATE v. JACKSON

No. 5D09-4382.

55 So.3d 682 (2011)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Roger Jerome JACKSON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

February 25, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Allison Leigh Morris , Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

James S. Purdy , Public Defender, and Ailene S. Rogers , Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The State appeals from a downward departure sentence imposed on Roger Jerome Jackson for the third degree felony charge of possession of cocaine. Jackson's criminal punishment code scoresheet indicated a lowest permissible sentence of 28.95 months in prison. If a "trial court wishes to depart downwardly from the indicated guidelines sentence, it must announce or write its valid reasons for doing so." State v. Marshall, 869...

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