LUIS ALFREDO LUCIANO, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Appellant Luciano appealed convictions for shooting from a vehicle and shooting into an occupied vehicle on double jeopardy grounds. The appellate court agreed with binding precedent requiring reversal of one conviction and remanded for vacation of the duplicate conviction and an unsupported award of investigative costs.
The court held that one of the two shooting convictions must be vacated based on double jeopardy principles as required by precedent, and that the award of investigative costs lacked evidentiary support and must be vacated. The court affirmed the remaining conviction and remanded for the trial court to vacate one conviction and the cost award, with authority to re-impose costs upon proper motion and proof.
“The State concedes that our panel decision in Lopez-Vazquez v. State, 931 So. 2d 231 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006), compels reversal”
Establishes that the State acknowledged controlling precedent required reversal of one conviction on double jeopardy grounds
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PER CURIAM.
Appellant raises three points on appeal, only two of which merit discussion. Appellant challenges his convictions for shooting from a vehicle1 and shooting into an occupied vehicle2 on double jeopardy grounds. The State concedes that our panel decision in Lopez-Vazquez v. State, 931 So. 2d 231 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006), compels reversal, although the State urges that we recede from this precedent. The State also concedes Appellant’s second point — the lack of evidentiary support for the award of investigative costs.
Accordingly, we remand this cause with instructions that the trial court vacate one of the shooting convictions and the award of investigative costs. Upon remand, the trial court may re-impose such costs upon appropriate motion and proof.
We certify conflict with Valdes v. State, 970 So. 2d 414 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007), rev. granted, 975 So. 2d 430, 2008 WL 599838 (Fla.2008).
AFFIRMED IN PART AND REMANDED; CONFLICT CERTIFIED.
LAWSON and COHEN, JJ., concur. TORPY, J., concurs and concurs specially with opinion.
. § 790.15(2), Fla. Stat. (2006).
. § 790.19, Fla. Stat. (2006).
TORPY, J.,
concurring and concurring specially.
I concur on the double jeopardy issue only because we are bound by the panel decision in Lopez-Vazquez v. State, 931 So. 2d 231 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006).
If we were not so bound, I would affirm. I agree with the decision of our sister court in Valdes v. State, 970 So. 2d 414 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007), which certified conflict with Lopez-Vazquez and is currently on review. In my view these are separate offenses for which separate punishment is authorized. Although I admit that the decisional law on this point is confusing and difficult to reconcile, I think the statutory exception on which the panel relied in Lopez-Vazquez is not applicable here. It prohibits separate punishments when the two offenses are “degrees of the same offense as provided by statute.” § 775.021(4)(b)(2), Fla. Stat. (2007) (emphasis supplied).
Here, we are dealing with two separate offenses contained within two separate statutes. The fact that they are both part of the same chapter is of no consequence in my view.
Section 790.15(2) punishes the discharge of a firearm from a vehicle within 1000 feet of any person.
Section 790.19 relates to shooting or throwing a deadly missile into a building or conveyance. Neither is a statutory degree variant of the other. They are entirely different crimes.
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- Lopez-Vazquez v. State, 931 So. 2d 231 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006)
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