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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Rolando G. BECERRIL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 90-76.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Oct. 23, 1990.
    Rehearing Denied Nov. 29, 1990.
    Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and N. Joseph Durant, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Jorge Espinosa, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appel-lee.
    Before BARKDULL, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

In addition to being convicted of first degree murder with a firearm, the appellant was also convicted of unlawful possession of the same firearm. As announced in the following authorities, Carawan v. State, 515 So.2d 161 (Fla.1987); Jones v. State, 547 So.2d 1278 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989); Gonzalez v. State, 543 So.2d 386 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989), the possession conviction cannot stand.

Therefore, the conviction, judgment, and sentence for possession of a firearm while committing a criminal offense, be and the same are hereby reversed and set aside with directions to the trial court to eliminate said conviction and sentence from the sentencing papers.