Villery v. Florida Parole & Probation Com'n

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• finding that community control is generally not considered the equivalent of incarceration
• contrasting a sentence with probation; noting that they are “discrete concepts which serve wholly different functions”; and explaining that a sentence of 9 imprisonment “serves as a penalty, as a payment of [a] defendant’s ‘debt to society’”
• where possible, court must give full effect to all statutory provisions and construe related provisions in harmony with one another
• incarceration as condition of probation is not a sentence rendering the defendant eligible for parole consideration
• where possible, court will give full effect to all statutory provisions and construe related provisions in harmony with one another
• full effect must be given to all statu-tory provisions and related statutory provisions must be construed in harmony with one another

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