Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Chester T. BYERS, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-12-21
Citations: 553 So. 2d 703
Docket Number: No. 74294
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Chester T. BYERS, Respondent.
Judges: EHRLICH, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 553
Pages: 703–703

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Chester T. BYERS, Respondent.
No. 74294.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Dec. 21, 1989.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Peggy A. Quince, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for petitioner.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender and Paul C. Helm, Asst. Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, for respondent.

Opinion:
McDONALD, Justice.
We review State v. Byers, 545 So.2d 931 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989), because of certified conflict with State v. Williams, 463 So.2d 525 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985). In the instant ease the district court consolidated eight eases and granted the appellees' motions to dismiss the state's appeals, as untimely filed, of the appellees' downward departure sentences. We recently disapproved Williams and held that the state's notice of appeal is untimely if not filed within fifteen days of pronouncement of sentence. Fox v. District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, 553 So.2d 161 (Fla.1989). Therefore, we approve Byers.
It is so ordered.
EHRLICH, C.J., and OVERTON, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.