Title: Scott v. State

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

549 So. 2d 1385 (1989)
Jimmy Jones SCOTT, Petitioner,
v.
STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 73331.

Supreme Court of Florida.
October 12, 1989.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Louis G. Carres, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Joan Fowler and Lynn Waxman, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.
PER CURIAM.
We have for review Scott v. State, 531 So. 2d 1068 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988), which certified the following questions of great public importance:
Id. at 1068-69. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
We have answered the first certified question in the negative in State v. McGriff, 537 So. 2d 107 (Fla. 1989). The second certified question has been answered with a qualified negative in Lambert v. State, 545 So. 2d 838, 841 (Fla. 1989). Accord Franklin v. State, 545 So. 2d 851, 853 (Fla. 1989). In Lambert we held that a departure based on violation of probation may not exceed the one-cell upward departure permitted by the sentencing guidelines. Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.701(d)(14).
Accordingly, we quash the opinion below and remand for reconsideration in light of our holdings in McGriff and Lambert.
It is so ordered.
EHRLICH, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
McDONALD, J., concurs as to the first question, but dissents as to the second question.