Case ID: so2d_653/html/0456-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Morris Lee SALES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 93-2790.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    April 5, 1995.
    Rehearing Denied May 3, 1995.
    
      Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Rosa C. Figarola, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Joni Braunstein, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appel-lee.
    Before NESBITT, BASKIN and GERSTEN, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Appellant, Morris Lee Sales, seeks reversal of his convictions for second degree murder with a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. We affirm the judgment and sentence on the second degree murder count. However we vacate the conviction for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

The defendant’s separate convictions for second degree murder with a firearm and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, based upon the same act, were impermissibly duplicative and violated the defendant’s double jeopardy rights. See Thomas v. State, 617 So.2d 1128 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993); Galban v. State, 605 So.2d 579 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992); Nixon v. State, 603 So.2d 660 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992). Accordingly, the conviction for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony must be reversed.

Affirmed in part; reversed in part, and remanded for resentencing.