Case Name: Jonathan SIMMONS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent; STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Jonathan SIMMONS, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-10-05
Citations: 666 So. 2d 131
Docket Number: Nos. 85444, 85458
Parties: Jonathan SIMMONS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Jonathan SIMMONS, Respondent.
Judges: GRIMES, C.J., and SHAW, KOGAN, HARDING and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 666
Pages: 131–131

Head Matter:
Jonathan SIMMONS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Jonathan SIMMONS, Respondent.
Nos. 85444, 85458.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Oct. 5, 1995.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 12, 1996.
Jonathan Simmons, pro se, Belle Glade.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Mark Rosenblatt, Assistant Attorney General, Miami, for Respondent/Petitioner.

Opinion:
OVERTON, Justice.
We have for review Simmons v. State, 650 So.2d 126 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995), in which the district court vacated Jonathan Simmons' sentence and certified the following question as being one of great public importance:
Whether Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1993), cert denied, [— U.S. -, 115 S.Ct. 278, 130 L.Ed.2d 195 (1994)], precludes under all circumstances the imposition of consecutive sentences for crimes arising from a single criminal episode for habitual felony or habitual violent felony offenders.
We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. In State v. Hill, 660 So.2d 1384 (Fla.1995), we have answered this same certified question in the affirmative. For the reasons set forth in Hill, we approve the district court's decision in the instant ease. It is so ordered.
GRIMES, C.J., and SHAW, KOGAN, HARDING and ANSTEAD, JJ., concur.
WELLS, J., dissents.