Johnson v. State

Full title: WILLIE JAMES JOHNSON, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Feb 21, 2001

792 So. 2d 495 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

Opinion

No. 4D98-4433.

Opinion filed February 21, 2001.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; James I. Cohn, Judge; L.T. Case No. 98-010688 CF10.

Charles Kaplan of the Law Offices of Kaplan Singhal, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Prior report: 765 So.2d 773.

On Rehearing ¹

1 We treat the State's motion to stay mandate as effectually requesting a rehearing and grant the motion.

FARMER, J.

After our original opinion in this case was released, the Florida Supreme Court decided Grant v. State, 770 So.2d 655 (Fla. 2000). In accord with Grant, we recede from our earlier opinion and affirm Appellant's original sentence imposed by the trial court.

GROSS and TAYLOR, JJ., Concur.