LAWSON v. STATE (2021)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Avion LAWSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 4D17-3671

Decided: January 06, 2021

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Benjamin Eisenberg, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT

The Florida Supreme Court quashed this Court's decision in Lawson v. State, 252 So. 3d 770 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018), and remanded for reconsideration and application of Pedroza v. State, 291 So. 3d 541 (Fla. 2020). We affirm. Under Pedroza, appellant's concurrent thirty-year prison sentences for non-homicide offenses are not the functional equivalent of a life sentence, and Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 74, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), is not implicated.

Affirmed.

Per Curiam.

Warner, May and Ciklin, JJ., concur.

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