State v. Calzada-Padron

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• recognizing that section 775.087 contains no provision permitting trial court to exercise discretion in imposing three-year minimum mandatory prison sentence once defendant has been convicted of certain enumerated felonies
• reversing downward departure sentence of 364 days in the county jail where the trial court erred in failing to impose a three-year mandatory minimum prison sentence on the qualifying defendant, as required by section 775.087(2), Florida Statutes (1993)
• \Section 775.087(2) contains no provision permitting the trial court to exercise its discretion in imposing a ... minimum mandatory prison sentence once a defendant has been convicted of certain enumerated felonies.\
• “Since the appellee in the instant case was convicted of one of the enumerated felonies in the statute and had in his possession a firearm, the trial court was required to sentence him to three years in state prison as the minimum sentence” (emphasis added)

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