Case Name: Shawn A. TYSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2014-09-24
Citations: 153 So. 3d 935
Docket Number: No. 2D12-2296
Parties: Shawn A. TYSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 153
Pages: 935–935

Head Matter:
Shawn A. TYSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 2D12-2296.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Sept. 24, 2014.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 6, 2015.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Terrence E. Kehoe, Special Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Cerese Crawford Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Ap-pellee.

Opinion:
CASE, JAMES R., Associate Senior Judge.
Shawn A. Tyson appeals his judgments and sentences for two counts of first-degree murder. We affirm his judgments without discussion. However, as the State concedes, we must reverse his sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole pursuant to the holding in Miller v. Alabama, — U.S. —, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), because Mr. Tyson was sixteen years old when the crimes were committed. In Miller, 132 S.Ct. at 2460-61, the Supreme Court held that a sentencing scheme requiring a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for juvenile homicide offenders violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. We must therefore reverse Mr. Tyson's sentence and remand his case for a new sentencing hearing in compliance with Rodriguez-Giudicelli v. State, 143 So.3d 947 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014). As this court did in Rodriguez-Giudicelli, we certify the same question of great public importance:
WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN MILLER V. ALABAMA, — U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), WHICH INVALIDATED SECTION 775.082(1)'S MANDATORY IMPOSITION OF LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE SENTENCES FOR JUVENILES CONVICTED OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER, OPERATES TO REVIVE THE PRIOR SENTENCE OF LIFE WITH PAROLE ELIGIBILITY AFTER 25 YEARS PREVIOUSLY CONTAINED IN THAT STATUTE?
39 Fla. L. Weekly at D1089,143 So.3d 947.
Judgments affirmed, sentences reversed, and question certified.
LaROSE and CRENSHAW, JJ., Concur.