Case Name: Jose Angel ALFONSO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-04-17
Citations: 561 So. 2d 1207
Docket Number: No. 89-885
Parties: Jose Angel ALFONSO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 561
Pages: 1207–1209

Head Matter:
Jose Angel ALFONSO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 89-885.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 17, 1990.
On Motion for Rehearing June 26, 1990.
Moore & Rabin and Harry M. Solomon, Miami, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Michael J. Neimand, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
On appeal from the first trial in this case, this court reversed defendant's conviction for first-degree murder and affirmed the judgments of conviction and the two concurrent fifteen-year sentences imposed for armed burglary and shooting into an occupied building. Alfonso v. State, 528 So.2d 383 (Fla. 3d DCA), review denied, 528 So.2d 1183 (Fla.1988). Upon retrial, defendant was convicted of second-degree murder. The second trial court judge resen-tenced defendant to life imprisonment for that offense. The court then ordered that defendant's previously affirmed fifteen year concurrent sentences for the offenses of armed burglary and shooting into an occupied dwelling run consecutively to the new departure sentence of life imprisonment for second-degree murder.
We vacate that part of the resen-tencing which orders that the two fifteen-year sentences run consecutively to the sentence for second-degree murder, and we direct that those convictions be reimposed to run concurrent to the life sentence. The change from concurrent to consecutive sentencing following retrial violated defendant's right to due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9 of the Florida Constitution. North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 23 L.Ed.2d 656 (1969) (due process clause of the United States Constitution is offended if an enhancement sentence punishes the defendant for the exercise of rights guaranteed him); see Herring v. State, 411 So.2d 966 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982).
Finding no merit to the other issues raised, we affirm the convictions and sentence appealed in all other respects.