Case ID: so3d_43/html/0920-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Donald R. FIRTH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 5D09-2114.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    Sept. 10, 2010.
    James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Edward J. Weiss, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
    Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Bonnie Jean Parrish, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Ap-pellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Appellant challenges his convictions for sexual battery with a deadly weapon or physical force, false imprisonment, simple battery and assault. He presents several points on appeal, only one of which warrants discussion — whether his convictions for sexual battery with a deadly weapon and simple battery violate double jeopardy. Concluding that the simple battery, a category one lesser-included offense, arose from the same criminal episode as the sexual battery, we vacate the conviction on the simple battery count. Garcia v. State, 769 So.2d 449, 449 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000). We affirm in all other respects.

AFFIRMED IN PART; VACATED IN PART.

GRIFFIN, ORFINGER and TORPY, JJ., concur.