Case Name: Jerry Lee ISAAC, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-05-24
Citations: 543 So. 2d 1293
Docket Number: No. 87-1215
Parties: Jerry Lee ISAAC, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: FRANK and PARKER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 543
Pages: 1293–1294

Head Matter:
Jerry Lee ISAAC, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 87-1215.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
May 24, 1989.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender and John T. Kilcrease, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee and William I. Munsey, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
RYDER, Acting Chief Judge.
Jerry Lee Isaac was convicted of conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and trafficking in cocaine based upon one drug transaction, and was also convicted of both delivery and possession of cocaine based upon another drug transaction. The delivery and possession counts involved a single undivided quantity of cocaine based upon the second drug transaction. A defendant may not be convicted of delivery and possession of cocaine predicated on a single underlying act. See Carawan v. State, 515 So.2d 161 (Fla.1987); Fuentes v. State, 533 So.2d 311 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988); Gordon v. State, 528 So.2d 910 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988). Accordingly, the judgment and sentence for possession of cocaine must be set aside on the grounds that it constitutes multiple punishment for the same act. We, therefore, reverse appellant's conviction for possession and remand to the trial court with directions to vacate that conviction and recalculate the sentence for the remaining convictions.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded with instructions.
FRANK and PARKER, JJ., concur.