LUC TERMITUS vs STATE OF FLORIDA

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED LUC TERMITUS, Appellant, v. Case No. 5D20-618 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. ________________________________/ Opinion filed January 26, 2021 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County, Tom Young, Judge. Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender, and Andrew Mich, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Robin A. Compton, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee. PER CURIAM. AFFIRMED. See Farmer v. State, 268 So. 3d 1009, 1010–12 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019) (holding that the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual or excessive punishments did not bar a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a defendant who was eighteen years old at the time he committed a murder as “[i]t is well established that eighteen is the dividing line between adult privileges and responsibilities and the privileges and responsibilities of children”). WALLIS, EDWARDS, and SASSO, JJ., concur. 2

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