ROGERS v. STATE (2019)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Keith Demond ROGERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 1D17-3522

Decided: April 16, 2019

Andy Thomas, Public Defender, and Kevin P. Steiger, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Kaitlin Weiss, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Because the jury found that the appellant committed multiple firearm offenses without discharging the firearm during a single criminal episode, the trial court erred in imposing consecutive mandatory minimum sentences. See Walton v. State, 208 So.3d 60, 64 (Fla. 2016) (quoting Williams v. State, 186 So.3d 989, 993 (Fla. 2016) (“[C]onsecutive sentencing of mandatory minimum imprisonment terms for multiple firearm offenses is impermissible if the offenses arose from the same criminal episode and a firearm was merely possessed but not discharged.”) ). Accordingly, we reverse the appellant's sentence on count V and remand the case to the trial court for it to order the appellant's sentence on count V to run concurrently to the sentences for counts IV and VI. We reject the appellant's separate argument that he was entitled to a judgment of acquittal.

Affirmed in part, Reversed in part, and Remanded with instructions.

Per Curiam.

Roberts, Ray, and Winsor, JJ., concur.

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