Case Name: Kevin Earnest WALKER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1985-07-23
Citations: 474 So. 2d 319
Docket Number: No. 83-2375
Parties: Kevin Earnest WALKER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before HENDRY, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 474
Pages: 319–320

Head Matter:
Kevin Earnest WALKER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 83-2375.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
July 23, 1985.
Rehearing Denied Sept. 11, 1985.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Harold Mendelow, Special Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Calvin L. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before HENDRY, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.

Opinion:
FERGUSON, Judge.
We reversed in part and remanded this case for an evidentiary hearing on petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. Walker v. State, 432 So.2d 727 (Fla.3d DCA 1983). In this appeal from the denial of his 3.850 motion, petitioner challenges the imposition of four consecutive mandatory minimum sentences arising out of a single criminal episode.
Having considered the record we hold in accordance with now settled law that the "stacking" of four mandatory minimum three-year sentences is precluded where two or more firearm-related offenses are committed at the same time and place. Palmer v. State, 438 So.2d 1 (Fla.1983). A sentence which exceeds that provided for by law constitutes fundamental error which may be corrected by an appellate court even if no objection was entered in the trial court. See Noble v. State, 353 So.2d 819, 820 n.4 (Fla.1977); Whitehead v. State, 446 So.2d 194 (Fla.4th DCA 1984), rev. denied, 462 So.2d 1108 (Fla.1985); Gonzalez v. State, 392 So.2d 334 (Fla.3d DCA 1981).
Reversed and remanded with instructions to correct the three-year mandatory sentences so that they are concurrent.