AVION LAWSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
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Opinion
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT
AVION LAWSON, Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
No. 4D17-3671
[January 6, 2021]
Appeal of order denying rule 3.800(a) motion from the Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Krista Marx, Judge; L.T. Case No. 502007CF010255AXXXMB.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Benjamin Eisenberg, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT
PER CURIAM.
The Florida Supreme Court quashed this Court’s decision in Lawson v. State, 252 So. 3d 770 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018), and remanded for reconsideration and application of Pedroza v. State, 291 So. 3d 541 (Fla. 2020). We affirm. Under Pedroza, appellant’s concurrent thirty-year prison sentences for non-homicide offenses are not the functional equivalent of a life sentence, and Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 74 (2010), is not implicated.
Affirmed.
WARNER, MAY and CIKLIN, JJ., concur.
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No motions for rehearing shall be filed.
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