DocketNumber： 66471
Citation Numbers： 476 So. 2d 663
Judges： Shaw
Filed Date： 9/26/1985
Status： Precedential
Modified Date： 3/3/2016
Supreme Court of Florida.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Gary L. Printy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for petitioner.
Michael E. Allen, Public Defender, and Glenna Joyce Reeves, Asst. Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for respondent.
SHAW, Justice.
We have jurisdiction under article V, section 3(b)(4), of the Florida Constitution to answer the following certified question of great public importance:
*664 WHEN AN APPELLATE COURT FINDS THAT A SENTENCING COURT HAS RELIED ON ONE OR MORE IMPERMISSIBLE REASONS FOR DEPARTING FROM THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES, AND HAS ALSO RELIED ON ONE OR MORE PERMISSIBLE REASONS, MAY THE APPELLATE COURT APPLY THE HARMLESS ERROR RULE AND AFFIRM THE SENTENCE?
Burch v. State, 462 So. 2d 548, 549 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). We have answered the certified question in Albritton v. State, 476 So. 2d 158 (Fla. 1985). See also State v. Carney, 476 So. 2d 165 (Fla. 1985) and State v. Young, 476 So. 2d 161 (Fla. 1985). We approve the decision below.
It is so ordered.
BOYD, C.J., and ADKINS, OVERTON, McDONALD and EHRLICH, JJ., concur.
Albritton v. State , 476 So. 2d 158 ( 1985 )
State v. Carney , 476 So. 2d 165 ( 1985 )
Burch v. State , 462 So. 2d 548 ( 1985 )
Wade v. State , 482 So. 2d 346 ( 1986 )
Vanover v. State , 498 So. 2d 899 ( 1986 )
Livingston v. State , 565 So. 2d 1288 ( 1988 )
Riggins v. State , 489 So. 2d 180 ( 1986 )
McCullum v. State , 498 So. 2d 1374 ( 1986 )
Banks v. State , 520 So. 2d 43 ( 1987 )
Wilson v. State , 490 So. 2d 1360 ( 1986 )