Case Name: Gilberto ALFONSO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-07-19
Citations: 661 So. 2d 308
Docket Number: No. 94-1732
Parties: Gilberto ALFONSO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before HUBBART, JORGENSON and COPE, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 661
Pages: 308–309

Head Matter:
Gilberto ALFONSO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 94-1732.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
July 19, 1995.
Order Denying Rehearing Oct. 11, 1995.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Marti Rothenberg, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Richard L. Polin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appel-lee.
Before HUBBART, JORGENSON and COPE, JJ.

Opinion:
ON REHEARING
PER CURIAM.
The defendant's motion for rehearing is granted, this court's opinion filed April 12, 1995, is vacated; the judgment of conviction and sentence entered below after a jury trial for attempted first-degree felony murder, as charged in count two of the information, is hereby reversed; and the cause is remanded to the trial court with directions to discharge the defendant from the cause as to this conviction and sentence only.
We reach this result based on the controlling and indistinguishable authority of State v. Gray, 654 So.2d 552 (Fla.1995) (ease, no. 83,766; opinion filed May 4,1995) [20 Fla. Law Weekly S204] (overruling Amlotte v. State, 456 So.2d 448 (Fla.1984)), which held that there is no such crime in Florida as attempted first-degree felony murder. Specifically, we reject the state's contention that the subject conviction for attempted first-degree felony murder should be reduced to a lesser offense; we are unaware of any authority in Florida, and have been cited to none, which would authorize a trial or appellate court to reduce a conviction for a nonexistent crime, as here, to a lesser offense.
As to the balance of the judgments of conviction and sentences under review, we affirm such judgments and sentences in all respects as they have not been challenged on appeal by the defendant.
Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded.