Case ID: so2d_778/html/0447-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Contreas FAISON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 3D00-3531.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Feb. 14, 2001.
    Rehearing Denied March 14, 2001.
    Contreas Faison, in proper person.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, for appellee.
    Before JORGENSON, GODERICH, and SHEVIN, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. “When a defendant in a single act violates the ‘peace and dignity’ of two sovereigns by breaking the laws of each, he has committed two distinct ‘offences.’ ” Heath v. Alabama, 474 U.S. 82, 88, 106 S.Ct. 433, 88 L.Ed.2d 387 (1985)(quoting United States v. Lanza, 260 U.S. 377, 43 S.Ct. 141, 67 L.Ed. 314 (1922)).