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Jones v. State

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA
Mar 10, 2021
320 So. 3d 220 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021)

Summary

affirming juvenile offender's "aggregate [sentence] of fifty years in prison"

Summary of this case from Nugent v. State

Opinion

No. 1D17-1715

03-10-2021

Tahj Halique JONES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Michael Ufferman of Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Sharon S. Traxler, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


Michael Ufferman of Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Sharon S. Traxler, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA

Per Curiam. On December 11, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court quashed our decision in this case and remanded the matter for reconsideration in light of its decision in Pedroza v. State , 291 So. 3d 541 (Fla. 2020). In Pedroza , the supreme court held that "a juvenile offender's sentence does not implicate Graham [v. Florida , 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010) ], and therefore Miller [v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012) ], unless it meets the threshold requirement of being a life sentence or the functional equivalent of a life sentence." Id. at 548.

Jones was sentenced to an aggregate term of fifty years in prison. Because he did not receive "a life sentence or the functional equivalent of a life sentence," we affirm. See id. at 549 (holding that Pedroza's forty-year sentence was "not a life sentence or the functional equivalent of a life sentence").

AFFIRMED .

Osterhaus, Jay, and Long, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Jones v. State

FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA
Mar 10, 2021
320 So. 3d 220 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021)

affirming juvenile offender's "aggregate [sentence] of fifty years in prison"

Summary of this case from Nugent v. State
Case details for

Jones v. State

Case Details

Full title:TAHJ HALIQUE JONES, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

Court:FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA

Date published: Mar 10, 2021

Citations

320 So. 3d 220 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021)

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