STATE v. RUSH

No. 1D19-3577.

306 So.3d 1273 (2020)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Ventrel RUSH, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

November 20, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashley Moody , Attorney General, and Trisha Meggs Pate and Heather Flanagan Ross , Assistant Attorneys General, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Charles E. Hobbs, II , Tallahassee, for Appellee.


At issue is the validity of the trial court's sua sponte decision to substantially reduce the sentence imposed on Ventrel Rush, who engaged in a vicious attack on the victim in his home arising from an on-line sexual hook-up gone bad. The State argues that the "trial court's idea that the victim was the provoker of this homophobic attack...

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