Case ID: so2d_533/html/0294-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Johnny Lee FRYSON, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. 70631.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Nov. 10, 1988.
    Michael E. Allen, Public Defender and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Asst. Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for petitioner.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Gary L. Printy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.
   KOGAN, Justice.

We have for review Fryson v. State, 506 So.2d 1117 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987), in which the district court certified the following as a question of great public importance:

DOES A TRIAL COURT’S STATEMENT, MADE AT THE TIME OF DEPARTURE FROM THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES, THAT IT WOULD DEPART FOR ANY ONE OF THE REASONS GIVEN, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER BOTH VALID AND INVALID REASONS ARE FOUND ON REVIEW, SATISFY THE STANDARDS SET FORTH IN ALBRITTON v. STATE [476 So.2d 158 (Fla.1985) ]?

Id. at 1120. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.

We answered the certified question in the negative in Griffis v. State, 509 So.2d 1104 (Fla.1987). Because the district court correctly found both valid and invalid reasons, we disapprove the decision below as to this issue and direct the district court to remand to the trial court for resentencing. We confine our review to the issue certified by the district court, and thus do not address any other issues raised by the parties.

It is so ordered.

EHRLICH, C.J., and OVERTON, MCDONALD, SHAW, BARKETT and GRIMES, JJ., concur.