WILLIAM JORDAN,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA,

Fla. 3d DCA | 2022-10-26
No. 2022-1116
Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2022)

Per_curiam
Per Curiam

PER CURIAM.

We affirm under the cases holding that a forty-year sentence is not the functional equivalent of a life sentence. Pedroza v. State, 291 So. 3d 541,

549 (Fla. 2020); Moss v. State, 305 So. 3d 730, 731 (Fla. 3d DCA 2020) (holding “a juvenile offender is only entitled to Eighth Amendment relief if he or she is serving a life sentence or the functional equivalent of a life sentence”).

Affirmed.


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