Case Name: Gary Jerome MILLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2002-07-10
Citations: 820 So. 2d 1056
Docket Number: No. 4D00-4672
Parties: Gary Jerome MILLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: HAZOURI, J, and DELL, JOHN W., Senior Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 820
Pages: 1056–1057

Head Matter:
Gary Jerome MILLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D00-4672.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
July 10, 2002.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Sophia Letts, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melynda Melear, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
FARMER, J.
We reject defendant's Apprendi challenge to his 10-year sentence for lewd and lascivious battery. Under the statutes the maximum sentence for this offense is 15 years. Thus the addition of points for penetration did not increase the sentence beyond the prescribed maximum. In this circumstance, the points relate to a legitimate sentencing factor. We thus follow our decision in Gilson v. State, 795 So.2d 105 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001), involving the same issue under identical circumstances. In so doing we express no opinion as to the result that would obtain where sentencing points push the sentence beyond the statutory maximum.
AFFIRMED.
HAZOURI, J, and DELL, JOHN W., Senior Judge, concur.
. Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000).
. See § 800.04(4), 775.082(3)(c), Fla. Stat. (2001).
. See, e.g., § 921.001(5), Fla. Stat. (2001) (for person sentenced for offenses committed after July 1, 1997, if the recommended sentence under the guidelines exceeds the statutory maximum the recommended sentence shall be imposed).