Case Name: Kevin James MADDEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-12-24
Citations: 499 So. 2d 63
Docket Number: No. 86-479
Parties: Kevin James MADDEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: ORFINGER, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 499
Pages: 63–64

Head Matter:
Kevin James MADDEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 86-479.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Dec. 24, 1986.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Christopher S. Quarles, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Sean Daly, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
DAUKSCH, Judge.
This is an appeal from a denial of a motion to mitigate a sentence. Appellant and the state agreed that if appellant would "provide substantial assistance in the identification, arrest or conviction of any of his accomplices, accessories, co-conspirators, or principals" that the state would so inform the court and thus assist in the reduction of his fifteen year minimum mandatory sentence. See § 893.185, Fla.Stat. (1985). Because the state did not file the motion seeking a sentence reduction the court correctly refused to reduce the sentence, even though appellant presented seven letters from agents and attorneys from federal agencies saying he rendered substantial assistance.
It is a discretionary act upon the part of the state attorney to assist in sentence reduction under the statute. The judiciary will not interfere with this executive decision which is wholly within the prosecutor's discretion.
AFFIRMED.
ORFINGER, J., concurs.
SHARP, J., concurs specially with opinion.