IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FIFTH DISTRICT

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO

 FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND

DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

TYZICK JOSEPH WALL,

Appellant,

v. Case No. 5D16-3731

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee.

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Opinion filed July 20, 2018

Appeal from the Circuit Court 

for Citrus County,

Richard A. Howard, Judge.

Edward Juan Lynum, of Lynum & 

Associates, PLLC, Wildwood, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, 

Tallahassee, and Kellie A. Nielan, Assistant 

Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for 

Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Tyzick Joseph Wall appeals his convictions and sentences for second-degree 

murder with a deadly weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon, and two counts of dealing 

in stolen property.1 Wall was under the age of eighteen when he committed these crimes. 

 

1 Wall was indicted jointly with his codefendant, Bryan Thomas Robinson, for the 

premediated first-degree murder of Stephen Gorney (Count One), robbery with a deadly 
2

We affirm his convictions without further discussion but remand for resentencing on Count 

One, second-degree murder. We also remand for the trial court to amend the sentence 

on Count Two, robbery with a deadly weapon.

As to Wall's sentence on Count One, we reverse because Wall was entitled to a 

jury fact-finding on whether he "actually killed, intended to kill, or attempted to kill" 

Stephen Gorney.2 See Williams v. State, 242 So. 3d 280, 288-89 (Fla. 2018) (citing 

Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 115 (2013)). We find that this error was not 

harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. See id. at 289-90. Because second-degree 

murder with a deadly weapon is a first-degree felony reclassified as a life felony under 

sections 775.087(1)(a) and 782.04(2), Florida Statutes (2015), Wall should have been 

sentenced under section 775.082(3)(b)2., Florida Statutes (2015). Williams specifies 

resentencing as though there had been a jury finding that Wall did not kill, intend to kill, 

or attempt to kill Gorney, rather than empanelment of a jury, as the remedy for this error. 

242 So. 3d at 292-93. We, therefore, remand for resentencing on Count One pursuant 

to section 775.082(3)(b)2.b. See Williams, 242 So. 3d at 288-93. The trial court shall 

indicate in the sentencing document that Wall is eligible for sentence review on this count 

after fifteen years under section 921.1402(2)(c), Florida Statutes (2015). § 

775.082(3)(b)2.b., c., Fla. Stat. (2015).

 

weapon (Count Two), and two counts of dealing in stolen property (Counts Three and 

Four). 

2 We note that Wall's second-degree murder conviction did not clearly include a 

finding by the jury that Wall actually killed Gorney due to the wording in the verdict form 

and jury instructions.
3

We also remand for the trial court to amend the sentence on Count Two, robbery 

with a deadly weapon, to reflect eligibility for sentence review after twenty years under 

section 921.1402(2)(d), Florida Statutes (2015). § 775.083(3)(c), Fla. Stat. (2015). In all 

other respects, we affirm.

AFFIRMED, in part; REVERSED, in part; and REMANDED with instructions.

ORFINGER, BERGER and EISNAUGLE, JJ., concur.