Case Name: Jean DEROSES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-07-30
Citations: 697 So. 2d 227
Docket Number: No. 96-1649
Parties: Jean DEROSES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before COPE, GREEN and SORONDO, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 697
Pages: 227–227

Head Matter:
Jean DEROSES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 96-1649.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
July 30, 1997.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Marti Rothenberg, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Sylvie Perez Posner, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before COPE, GREEN and SORONDO, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Jean Deroses appeals his convictions for armed burglary with an assault or battery, armed kidnapping, two counts of sexual battery and armed robbery. We find no merit to his appeal as concerns his convictions for these crimes.
Deroses further argues that the trial court should not have imposed a three-year minimum mandatory sentence in counts 3 and 4 because there was no evidence that he was in actual, physical possession of a firearm when the sexual battery was committed. The state concedes that this was error. Accordingly, we remand this case to the trial court with directions to strike the three-year minimum mandatory from counts 3 and 4 of the sentencing order.
Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded with instructions.