ROBERT GAFFNEY
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2023-12-05
No. 23-0853
Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2023)

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Holding

Double jeopardy analysis under Florida Statutes section 775.021(4) must be conducted without regard to the accusatory pleading or the proof adduced at trial, even where an alternative conduct statute is implicated.


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[1] Double jeopardy analysis under Florida Statutes section 775.021(4) must be conducted without regard to the accusatory pleading or the proof adduced at trial, regardless o…

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“We recede from our prior decision in Gibbs [v. State, 698 So. 2d 1206 (Fla. 1997),] and hold that a double jeopardy analysis must—in accordance with section 775.021(4)[, Florida Statutes]—be conducted without regard to the accusatory pleading or the proof adduced at trial, even where an alternative conduct statute is implicated.”

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Robert Gaffney appealed his criminal conviction from the Circuit Court for Duval County.…

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. See Roughton v. State, 185 So. 3d 1207, 1211 (Fla. 2016) (“We recede from our prior decision in Gibbs [v. State, 698 So. 2d 1206 (Fla. 1997),] and hold that a double jeopardy analysis must—in accordance with section 775.021(4)[, Florida Statutes]— be conducted without regard to the accusatory pleading or the proof adduced at trial, even where an alternative conduct statute is implicated.”).

EDWARDS, C.J., LAMBERT, and MACIVER, JJ., concur.


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