Case ID: so2d_630/html/0526-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Joseph PENTON, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. 80709.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Oct. 14, 1993.
    Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Josephine L. Holland, Asst. Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for petitioner.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief, Crim. Law and Charlie McCoy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.
   OVERTON, Judge.

We have for review Penton v. State, 605 So.2d 1319 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992), in which the district court reversed Penton’s consecutive habitual violent felony offender sentences and remanded with directions that Penton’s sentences be imposed to run concurrently. The district court also certified the same question we answered in Tillman v. State, 609 So.2d 1295 (Fla.1992). In accordance with our decision in Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1993), we approve the district court’s reversal of Penton’s consecutive sentences. On the authority of Tillman, we answer the certified question in the negative.

It is so ordered.

BARKETT, C.J., and McDONALD, SHAW, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur. 
      
      . We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.