Case Name: William BROWN, Petitioner, v. Michael W. MOORE and Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2001-11-16
Citations: 800 So. 2d 329
Docket Number: No. 1D00-4621
Parties: William BROWN, Petitioner, v. Michael W. MOORE and Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent.
Judges: VAN NORTWICK and POLSTON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 800
Pages: 329–330

Head Matter:
William BROWN, Petitioner, v. Michael W. MOORE and Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent.
No. 1D00-4621.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Nov. 16, 2001.
William Brown, pro se, for Appellant.
Carolyn J. Mosley, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Opinion:
BARFIELD, J.
Petitioner has not demonstrated that the lower tribunal departed from the essential requirements of law in denying his petition for writ of mandamus seeking gain time credit under the statute in effect at the time he began the conspiracy of which he was convicted, instead of under the statute in effect at the time the conspiracy ended. A crime spanning a change in the gain time statute invokes the provisions of the latter statute. See, Jenkins v. State, 444 So.2d 1108 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984). See also, Leyvas v. United States, 371 F.2d 714 (9th Cir.1967). The law deems an offender who persists in the commission of a continuing crime, in the face of a change in a statute affecting the punishment or gain time with regard to that crime, to have fully anticipated the application of the latter law.
The petition for writ of certiorari is DENIED.
VAN NORTWICK and POLSTON, JJ., concur.