Williams v. State

Full title: PHILLIP E. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Feb 9, 2000

753 So. 2d 144 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

Opinion

No. 4D99-0017.

Opinion filed February 9, 2000.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Virginia Gay Broome, Judge; L.T. No. 98-001616 CFA02.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Louis G. Carres, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Marrett W. Hanna, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

On the sole issue raised in this appeal, we find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to depart downward from the guideline sentence. See Scholz v. State, 734 So.2d 526 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999).

AFFIRMED.

WARNER, C.J., KLEIN, J., and OWEN, WILLIAM C., JR., Senior Judge, concur.