Case Name: Donald Lewis SMITH, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1993-06-10
Citations: 620 So. 2d 187
Docket Number: No. 80551
Parties: Donald Lewis SMITH, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: overton, McDonald, shaw, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 620
Pages: 187–188

Head Matter:
Donald Lewis SMITH, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 80551.
Supreme Court of Florida.
June 10, 1993.
Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender and Kathleen Stover, Asst. Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., James W. Rogers, Bureau Chief — Criminal Appeals and Carolyn J. Mosley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We have for review Smith v. State, 604 So.2d 944 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992), which certified the following question of great public importance:
Do defendant's efforts to cover up a crime allow sentencing guidelines departure?
We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. We answer in the negative consistent with our opinion in State v. Varner, 616 So.2d 988 (Fla.1993). The opinion below is quashed and remanded for reconsideration in light of Varner.
It is so ordered.
overton, McDonald, shaw, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.
BARKETT, C.J., concurs specially with an opinion.