Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1988

Tarver v. State

Tarver v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided August 25, 1988 · Cowart, Daniel, Sharp
529 So. 2d 1274; 13 Fla. L. Weekly 1985; 1988 Fla. App. LEXIS 3756; 1988 WL 86869 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Tarver v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

The defendant’s recommended guideline sentence was “community control or 12-30 *1275months incarceration.” The sentence pronounced and imposed was commitment to prison “for a term of 8 years” with a proviso that “after serving a period of 2V2 years imprisonment in DOC the balance of such sentence shall be suspended and the defendant shall be placed on probation for a period of 5 years....” No reasons were given to support a departure sentence. The issue is whether this is a departure sentence.

This case is substantially the same as McKee v. State, 528 So.2d 417 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988) and Carr v. State, 528 So.2d 406 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988), and, on the authority of those cases, the sentence in this case is held to not depart from the guideline recommendation and is

AFFIRMED.

SHARP, C.J., and DANIEL, J., concur. COWART, J., dissents with opinion.

Dissenting Opinion

COWART, Judge,

dissenting.

I dissent for the reasons contained in the dissents in McKee v. State, Carr v. State, and Hankey v. State, 529 So.2d 736 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988).

Case-law data current through December 31, 2025. Source: CourtListener bulk data.