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affirming juvenile offender's "aggregate [sentence] of fifty years in prison"
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No. 1D17-1715
03-10-2021
Tahj Halique JONES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Michael Ufferman of Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Sharon S. Traxler, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
Michael Ufferman of Michael Ufferman Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Sharon S. Traxler, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA
Per Curiam. On December 11, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court quashed our decision in this case and remanded the matter for reconsideration in light of its decision in Pedroza v. State , 291 So. 3d 541 (Fla. 2020). In Pedroza , the supreme court held that "a juvenile offender's sentence does not implicate Graham [v. Florida , 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010) ], and therefore Miller [v. Alabama , 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012) ], unless it meets the threshold requirement of being a life sentence or the functional equivalent of a life sentence." Id. at 548.
Jones was sentenced to an aggregate term of fifty years in prison. Because he did not receive "a life sentence or the functional equivalent of a life sentence," we affirm. See id. at 549 (holding that Pedroza's forty-year sentence was "not a life sentence or the functional equivalent of a life sentence").
AFFIRMED .
Osterhaus, Jay, and Long, JJ., concur.