Borbon v. State

Full title: RICHARD BORBON, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

Court: Florida Court of Appeals, Fourth District

Date published: Jul 19, 2023

No. 4D22-1868 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Jul. 19, 2023)

Opinion

4D22-1868

07-19-2023

RICHARD BORBON, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Gary Lee Caldwell, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jonathan P. Picard, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Scott Suskauer, Judge; L.T. Case No. 502021CF001722.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Gary Lee Caldwell, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jonathan P. Picard, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Rodriguez v. State, 299 So.3d 555, 557 (Fla. 5th DCA 2020) ("[E]ven if the trial court had separately erred in finding no legal basis to depart under section 921.0026(2)(j) [(step 1)]," because the trial court "determined that this was not a case where it should depart (step 2), . . . such error would be harmless.").

KLINGENSMITH, C.J., FORST and ARTAU, JJ., concur.