Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Larry TEAGUE, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1987-02-26
Citations: 502 So. 2d 1238
Docket Number: No. 69034
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Larry TEAGUE, Respondent.
Judges: McDonald, C.J., and OVERTON, EHRLICH, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 502
Pages: 1238–1239

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Larry TEAGUE, Respondent.
No. 69034.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Feb. 26, 1987.
Robert A. Butterworth, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Belle B. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Day-tona Beach, for petitioner.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, Seventh Judicial Circuit, and Michael S. Becker, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We accepted jurisdiction over this cause pending our review of Vicknair v. State, 483 So.2d 896 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986), in which the district court certified the following question as one of great public importance:
Is the determination of a defendant as an habitual offender pursuant to section 775.084, Florida Statutes, a permissible reason to depart from a recommended guideline sentence where the sole factual basis for the habitual offender determination is the defendant's criminal record and current conviction which have already been weighed in arriving at the guideline sentence, or when the factual basis for the habitual offender determination, other than the defendant's criminal record, is not a clear and convincing reason for departure under guideline sentencing criteria?
Id. at 898. We answered Vicknair's question in Whitehead v. State, 498 So.2d 863 (Fla.1986). For reasons expressed in Whitehead, we approve Teague v. State, 491 So.2d 296 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986).
It is so ordered.
McDonald, C.J., and OVERTON, EHRLICH, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.