JOHN WALLACE HUGHES, III, v. STATE OF FLORIDA
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL FIRST DISTRICT, STATE OF FLORIDA JOHN WALLACE HUGHES, III, Appellant, NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED CASE NO. 1D10-5396 v. STATE OF FLORIDA , Appellee. _____________________________/ Opinion filed October 17, 2011. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County. L. P. Haddock, Judge. Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Pamela D. Presnell, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Trisha Meggs Pate, Bureau Chief Criminal Appeals, Tallahassee, for Appellee. PER CURIAM. Appellant, John Wallace Hughes, III, challenges his two convictions and sentences for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. As properly conceded by the State, Appellant s convictions and sentences violate double jeopardy because they were based on the possession of multiple firearms at the same time. Hill v. State, 711 So. 2d 1221, 1224-25 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998) (holding that because the word any preceded the list of items a felon was prohibited from possessing, the prohibition against double jeopardy precluded more than one conviction for the possession of multiple firearms at the same time). We, therefore, reverse and remand with directions for the trial court to vacate one of Appellant s convictions and sentences. REVERSED and REMANDED for further proceedings. DAVIS, VAN NORTWICK, and THOMAS, JJ., CONCUR. 2
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