Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1995

Williams v. State

Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided May 10, 1995 · Klein, Polen, Stone

654 So. 2d 1240; 1995 Fla. App. LEXIS 5023; 1995 WL 270915 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

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Blanton v. Blanton (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1995)

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

POLEN and KLEIN, JJ., concur. STONE, J., concurs specially with opinion.

Concurring Opinion

STONE, Judge,

concurring specially.

I concur specially to note that in my judgment, a record of prior misdemeanors alone should not be permitted to serve as a basis for deviating from the sentencing guidelines on the grounds of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct. However, I acknowledge that we have previously recognized, albeit indirectly, that the commission of a single felony following a misdemeanor record may furnish sufficient basis for finding a pattern of increasingly serious activity. See Darrisaw v. State, 642 So.2d 615 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994), rev. granted, 650 So.2d 991 (Fla. 1995).

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