Supreme Court of Florida

Jones v. State

March 1, 1990559 So. 2d 204

Summary

The Florida Supreme Court held that double‑jeopardy principles prohibit increasing Jones’s sentence on the second sentencing, limiting the maximum term to twenty‑five years, and quashed the district court’s approval of a fifty‑year sentence while remanding for further proceedings. The Court approved the district court’s analysis of upward departures from guideline ranges but constrained it by the double‑jeopardy bar.