Case Name: Rogyne O'NEAL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2017-02-08
Citations: 211 So. 3d 303
Docket Number: No. 4D14-602
Parties: Rogyne O’NEAL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Ciklin, C.J., Warner and Klingensmith, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 211
Pages: 303–304

Head Matter:
Rogyne O’NEAL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D14-602
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
February 8, 2017
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Paul E. Petillo, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assis tant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We withdraw our previously issued opinion and substitute the following in its place.
We reverse the trial court's order denying Rogyne O'Neal's motion to correct his life sentence for a murder he committed as a juvenile in 2001. In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 2469, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), the Supreme Court held that life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for juvenile homicide offenders were unconstitutional. This court held in Cotto v. State, 141 So.3d 615, 617 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014), and the Florida Supreme Court held in Falcon v. State, 162 So.3d 954, 962 (Fla. 2015), that Miller applies retroactively.
We additionally reverse O'Neal's sentence of forty-five years' imprisonment for the robbery he committed as a juvenile. See Kelsey v. State, 206 So.3d 5 (Fla. 2016) ("[A] defendant whose original sentence violated Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, [130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825] (2010), and who was subsequently resentenced prior to July 1, 2014, [is] entitled to be resentenced pursuant to the provisions of chapter 2014-220, Laws of Florida[.]" (first and third alterations added)).
As properly conceded by the state, O'Neal is entitled to a new sentencing hearing.
We find no merit in the remaining issues raised on appeal.
Reversed and remanded.
Ciklin, C.J., Warner and Klingensmith, JJ., concur.