Edwards v. State

Full title: Gerald S. EDWARDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Date published: Mar 25, 2014

135 So. 3d 418 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2014)

Opinion

No. 5D13–1684.

2014-03-25

Gerald S. EDWARDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Citrus County, Richard A. Howard, Judge. James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Nancy Ryan, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Robin A. Compton, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Citrus County, Richard A. Howard, Judge.
James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Nancy Ryan, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Robin A. Compton, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.¹

1 Our affirmance of Appellant's conviction on Count III is based on this court's recent decision in Roughton v. State, 92 So.3d 284 (Fla. 5th DCA 2012) (convictions for sexual battery and lewd or lascivious molestation did not violate prohibition against double jeopardy even though convictions arose from same act).

EVANDER, COHEN and WALLIS, JJ., concur.