Opinion
Case No. 2D18-90
03-11-2020
Harry Lee DAVIS, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Maureen E. Surber, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Peter Koclanes, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
Howard L. Dimmig, II, Public Defender, and Maureen E. Surber, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Peter Koclanes, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See White v. State, 271 So. 3d 1023, 1028 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019) ("Florida's juvenile sentencing procedure set forth in section 921.1401[, Florida Statutes,] does not violate the Sixth Amendment under Apprendi [v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000),] and its progeny."); Simmons v. State, 267 So. 3d 1067, 1069 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019) ("[T]his Court has previously rejected the argument that a jury, rather than the trial court, must determine whether a life sentence is appropriate under the statutory factors in section 921.1401."); Beckman v. State, 230 So. 3d 77, 97 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017) ("Florida's juvenile sentencing procedure set forth in section 921.1401, as contemplated by Miller [v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012) ], does not violate the Sixth Amendment under Apprendi and its progeny."), review denied, SC17-2060, 2018 WL 3213795 (Fla. July 2, 2018), cert. denied, Beckman v. Florida, ––– U.S. ––––, 139 S. Ct. 1166, 203 L.Ed.2d 210 (2019).
KELLY, SALARIO, and ATKINSON, JJ., Concur.