Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Carlos BRAXTON, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-05-19
Citations: 524 So. 2d 1020
Docket Number: No. 71894
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Carlos BRAXTON, Respondent.
Judges: MCDONALD, C.J., and EHRLICH, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 524
Pages: 1020–1020

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Carlos BRAXTON, Respondent.
No. 71894.
Supreme Court of Florida.
May 19, 1988.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Candance M. Sunderland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for petitioner.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender and Robert Mack, Asst. Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, for respondent.

Opinion:
OVERTON, Justice.
The Second District Court of Appeal, in Braxton v. State, 519 So.2d 60 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988), certified the following question as one of great public importance:
May the quantity of drugs involved in possession or delivery of cocaine be used as a proper reason to support a valid departure from the sentencing guidelines?
Id. at 61. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. We answered the same question in the negative in State v. Koopman, 519 So.2d 613 (Fla.1988), relying on our decision in Atwaters v. State, 519 So.2d 611 (Fla.1988). Accordingly, we approve the decision of the Second District in the instant case.
It is so ordered.
MCDONALD, C.J., and EHRLICH, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.