Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2019-10-18 15:04:13.378482+00
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IN THE SECOND DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL, LAKELAND, FLORIDA

                                     October 18, 2019

LARRY MARSHALL,                    )
                                   )
           Appellant,              )
                                   )
v.                                 )                    Case No. 2D16-1095
                                   )
STATE OF FLORIDA,                  )
                                   )
           Appellee.               )
___________________________________)

BY ORDER OF THE COURT:

        Upon consideration of the motion for rehearing filed by the appellant on July 11,

2019,

        IT IS ORDERED that the appellant's motion for rehearing is denied. The order

dated June 28, 2019, is withdrawn and the attached order is substituted therefor.

I HEREBY CERTIFY THE FOREGOING IS A
TRUE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL COURT ORDER.

MARY ELIZABETH KUENZEL, CLERK
                                             IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                                             OF FLORIDA
                                             SECOND DISTRICT

LARRY MARSHALL,                    )
                                   )
           Appellant,              )
                                   )
v.                                 )                   Case No. 2D16-1095
                                   )
STATE OF FLORIDA,                  )
                                   )
           Appellee.               )
___________________________________)

Opinion filed October 18, 2019.

Appeal pursuant to Fla. R. App. P.
9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for
Highlands County; Peter F. Estrada,
Judge.

Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender,
and Robert A. Young, General
Counsel, and Howardene Garrett,
Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for
Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, and Peter Koclanes,
Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for
Appellee.

                    ORDER ON MOTION TO ENFORCE MANDATE

PER CURIAM.

              Larry Marshall has filed a motion to enforce this court's mandate in

Marshall v. State, 214 So. 3d 776 (Fla. 2d DCA 2017). We deny Marshall's motion
because an intervening supreme court decision establishes that our opinion is no longer

correct.

              Marshall was sentenced in 1976 to ninety-nine years in prison with the

possibility of parole for nonhomicide offenses he committed when he was a juvenile. In

2015, he filed a postconviction motion asserting that his sentence was a de facto life

sentence and therefore unconstitutional under the supreme court's reasoning in Henry

v. State, 175 So. 3d 675 (Fla. 2015). The postconviction court denied the motion, but

this court reversed and remanded for resentencing, holding that "it follows from Henry

and Atwell [v. State, 197 So. 3d 1040 (Fla. 2016),] that a nonhomicide juvenile

offender's term-of-years sentence with the possibility of parole can violate the Eighth

Amendment." Marshall, 214 So. 3d at 779. But before Marshall was resentenced, the

supreme court concluded that Atwell was wrongly decided. See Franklin v. State, 258

So. 3d 1239, 1241 (Fla. 2018); see also State v. Michel, 257 So. 3d 3, 6 (Fla. 2018). As

a result, the postconviction court granted the State's motion to deny resentencing.

              A trial court's role in carrying out an appellate court mandate is purely

ministerial, and it may not deviate from the terms of the mandate. Rodriguez v. State,

924 So. 2d 985, 986 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006). However, a

              clear example of a case in which an exception to the general
              rule [binding the parties to the law of the case] should be
              made results from an intervening decision by a higher court
              contrary to the decision reached on the former appeal, the
              correction of the error making unnecessary an appeal to the
              higher court.

Strazzulla v. Hendrick, 177 So. 2d 1, 4 (Fla. 1965); see also Trotter v. State, 690 So. 2d

1234, 1237 (Fla. 1996) ("An intervening act of the legislature refining a portion of

Florida's death penalty statute may be sufficiently exceptional to warrant modification of

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the law of the case."); Morales v. State, 580 So. 2d 788, 788 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991)

(denying defendant's motion to enforce mandate because the prior opinion had been

superseded by intervening supreme court decisions). Because our reasoning in

Marshall has been superseded by the supreme court in Franklin, we deny Marshall's

motion to enforce mandate.

             Motion to enforce mandate denied.

KHOUZAM, C.J., and KELLY and ROTHSTEIN-YOUAKIM, JJ., Concur.

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