Rashane Jones vs State of Florida

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL FIRST DISTRICT, STATE OF FLORIDA RASHANE JONES, Appellant, v. NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED CASE NO. 1D14-4129 STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. _____________________________/ Opinion filed April 12, 2016. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County. Adrian G. Soud, Judge. Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Richard M. Bracey, III, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Matthew Pavese, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee. PER CURIAM. We affirm Appellant’s conviction without comment, but we reverse his sentence and remand for resentencing because, although the trial court correctly determined based on then-controlling appellate decisions that it was required to impose consecutive mandatory minimum terms under the 10-20-Life statute, the Florida Supreme Court subsequently quashed one of those decisions and held that consecutive sentencing is permissible but not mandatory. See Williams v. State, 41 Fla. L. Weekly S73, S74 (Fla. Mar. 3, 2016) (“If . . . multiple firearm offenses are committed contemporaneously, during which time multiple victims are shot at, then consecutive sentencing is permissible but not mandatory. In other words, a trial judge has discretion to order the mandatory minimum sentences to run consecutively, but may impose the sentences concurrently.”) (citations omitted). AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED and REMANDED in part. WETHERELL, RAY, and KELSEY, JJ., CONCUR. 2

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