ROSSI DEJOUR ARMSTEAD, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 1st DCA | 2017-08-28
No. CASE NO. 1D13-4728
WOLF, MAKAR, and WINSOR, JJ., ' CONCUR.
224 So. 3d 925 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2017)

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Synopsis

On remand from the Florida Supreme Court, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed Armstead's consecutive sentences for home invasion robbery with a firearm, kidnapping, and grand theft of a motor vehicle. The court applied the Florida Supreme Court's distinction between 'qualifying' and 'non-qualifying' felonies under the 10-20-Life statute to hold that consecutive sentencing was mandatory.


Holding

The trial court properly ordered the sentences to run consecutively because the 10-20-Life statute expressly mandates that a qualifying felony sentence run consecutively to any sentence imposed for a non-qualifying felony, regardless of whether the offenses arose from the same criminal episode.


Headnotes

[1] Consecutive sentencing of mandatory minimum imprisonment terms for multiple firearm offenses is impermissible if the offenses arose from the same criminal episode and a f…

[2] The 10-20-Life statute expressly mandates that a qualifying felony sentence run consecutively to any sentence imposed for a non-qualifying felony.

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Key Quotes

“consecutive sentencing of mandatory minimum imprisonment terms, for multiple firearm offenses is impermissible if the offenses arose from the same criminal episode and a firearm was merely possessed but not discharged.”

Establishes the rule for multiple qualifying felonies—consecutive sentences are impermissible under specific circumstances.

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Facts & Procedural History

Armstead was convicted of principal to home invasion robbery with a firearm, principal to kidnapping, and principal to grand theft of a motor vehicle.…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

*926ON REMAND FROM THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT

PER CURIAM.

We previously affirmed appellant’s sentences based on our en banc decision in Walton v. State, 106 So.3d 522, 528 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013) (Walton I), where this court held that “any mandatory minimum term required by section 775.087(2)—whether the defendant fires a gun, or only carries or displays it—shall be imposed, consecutively to any other term imposed for any other felony.” However, the Florida Supreme Court quashed our decision in this case and remanded for reconsideration in light of its decisions in Walton v. State, 208 So.3d 60 (Fla. 2016) (Walton II), and Williams v. State, 186 So.3d 989 (Fla. 2016).

In Williams, the supreme court said that “consecutive sentencing of mandatory minimum imprisonment terms, for multiple firearm offenses is impermissible if the offenses arose from the same criminal episode and a firearm was merely possessed but not discharged.” 186 So.Jd at 993; accord Walton II, 208 So.3d at 64. However, Williams distinguished between consecutive sentences imposed for two “qualifying felonies” pursuant to thé 10-20-Life statute as codified in section 775.087, Florida Statutes (2012), and consecutive sentences imposed for “qualifying felonies” and “non-qualifying felonies.” Williams, 186 So.3d at 992. The supreme court noted that the 10-20-Life statute “expressly mandates ... that a qualifying felony sentence run ‘consecutively to’ any sentence imposed for a non-qualifying felony.” Id.

Here, appellant was convicted of (1) principal to home invasion robbery with a firearm; (2) principal to kidnapping; and (3) principal to grand theft of a motor vehicle. Though both robbery and kidnapping may be qualifying offenses pursuant to the 10-20-Life statute, in the current case, the State charged appellant pursuant to the 10-20-Life statute only on the home invasion robbery count. § 775.087(2)(a)lg, Fla. Stat. The kidnapping in ■ appellant’s case; then, was considered a “non-qualifying offense.” Martin v. State, 190 So.3d 252, 255 (Fla. 1st DCA 2016). Thus, pursuant to Williams, because appellant was convicted of one “qualifying felony” and two “non-qualifying felonies,” the trial court would have been required to run the •sentences consecutively. ■

Here, the trial court properly ordered the sentences • to run consecutively.- We, therefore, affirm. See Martin, 190 So.3d at 255.

WOLF, MAKAR, and WINSOR, JJ., ' CONCUR.


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