Case Name: Reginald LINTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-07-20
Citations: 530 So. 2d 345
Docket Number: No. 86-2708
Parties: Reginald LINTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: DANAHY and THREADGILL, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 530
Pages: 345–346

Head Matter:
Reginald LINTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 86-2708.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
July 20, 1988.
Rehearing Denied Sept. 6, 1988.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender and D.P. Chanco, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee and Erica M. Raffel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
RYDER, Acting Chief Judge.
Appellant was convicted of four counts of possession of cocaine with intent to sell or deliver and four counts of sale or delivery of cocaine in violation of section 893.-13(l)(a)(l), Florida Statutes (1985). Each count of sale corresponded to a count of possession with intent to sell which arose from the same act. Appellant contents that conviction of both possession of cocaine with intent to sell and conviction of sale of that same cocaine violates the double jeopardy clauses of the United States and Florida Constitutions. We agree. See Gordon v. State, 528 So.2d 910 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988).
We reverse and remand with instructions to vacate either the convictions for possession of cocaine with intent to sell or the convictions for sale of cocaine. The trial court must recalculate the sentence for the remaining counts without the improper counts being scored.
DANAHY and THREADGILL, JJ., concur.