Lawson v. State

Full title: AVION LAWSON, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

Court: DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT

Date published: Jan 6, 2021

310 So. 3d 54 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021)

Opinion

No. 4D17-3671

01-06-2021

Avion LAWSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Benjamin Eisenberg, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Benjamin Eisenberg, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT

Per Curiam.

The Florida Supreme Court quashed this Court's decision in Lawson v. State , 252 So. 3d 770 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018), and remanded for reconsideration and application of Pedroza v. State , 291 So. 3d 541 (Fla. 2020). We affirm. Under Pedroza , appellant's concurrent thirty-year prison sentences for non-homicide offenses are not the functional equivalent of a life sentence, and Graham v. Florida , 560 U.S. 48, 74, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), is not implicated.

Affirmed.

Warner, May and Ciklin, JJ., concur.