Willford v. State

Full title: JULIAN WILLFORD, APPELLANT, v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Apr 13, 1993

616 So. 2d 196 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993)

Opinion

No. 92-1337.

April 13, 1993.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dade County; Alan Postman, Judge.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Kelley S. Roark, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Consuelo Maingot and Francine Thomas, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

Before HUBBART, BASKIN and LEVY, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. State v. Cotton, 595 So.2d 957 (Fla. 1992) ( approving Cotton v. State, 588 So.2d 694 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991)); Burdick v. State, 594 So.2d 267 (Fla. 1992). Compare Tucker v. State, 595 So.2d 956 (Fla. 1992) (resentencing required where trial court did not indicate understanding that life sentence under § 775.084(4)(a), Fla. Stat. (1991), was permissive, not mandatory); Henry v. State, 581 So.2d 928 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991) (same).