Case Name: Bobby ADAMS, a/k/a Robert Shelton, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1991-03-07
Citations: 577 So. 2d 963
Docket Number: No. 90-1328
Parties: Bobby ADAMS, a/k/a Robert Shelton, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: COBB, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 577
Pages: 963–965

Head Matter:
Bobby ADAMS, a/k/a Robert Shelton, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 90-1328.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
March 7, 1991.
On Motion for Rehearing April 18, 1991.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Daniel J. Schafer, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Belle B. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
DAUKSCH, Judge.
This is an appeal from a sentence.
The principal issue involves the points to be assessed for "legal constraint." When a defendant is on probation or community control or is in custody and commits another crime, he is to be treated more severely than a defendant who was not under legal constraint. Here, appellant was on probation and then committed more than one crime. The sentencing judge assessed points for each crime he committed (and convicted) while on probation. Appellant says this is not in accordance with the sentencing guidelines because the legislature did not explicitly say so. We are urged to recede from Walker v. State, 546 So.2d 764 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989) which held that the legal constraint points should be assessed for each conviction. We decline to recede from that case and suggest that it is based upon good, though unstated, rationale. A person who commits more than one crime while on probation should be treated more harshly and in direct proportion to the number of crimes for which he is convicted, than one who commits only one crime.
AFFIRMED.
COBB, J., concurs.
COWART, J., dissents with opinion.