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Fla. Stat. § 921.0027 (2025)

Criminal Punishment Code and revisions; applicability.

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921.0027 Criminal Punishment Code and revisions; applicability.The Florida Criminal Punishment Code applies to all felonies, except capital felonies, committed on or after October 1, 1998. Any revision to the Criminal Punishment Code applies to sentencing for all felonies, except capital felonies, committed on or after the effective date of the revision. Felonies, except capital felonies, with continuing dates of enterprise shall be sentenced under the Criminal Punishment Code in effect on the beginning date of the criminal activity.
History.s. 42, ch. 97-194.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases, 2000–2005 · leading case: Seagrave v. State, 802 So. 2d 281 (Fla. 2001).
Seagrave v. State, 802 So. 2d 281 (Fla. 2001). · cites it 2× “0026, Florida Statutes (1997)); see also § 921.0027, Fla. Stat. (1999). Section 921.”
State v. Rife, 789 So. 2d 288 (Fla. 2001). · cites it 2× “0026, Florida Statutes (1997)); see also § 921.0027, Fla. Stat. (1999). Section 921.”
Jones v. State, 813 So. 2d 22 (Fla. 2002). · cites it 2× “See § 921.0027, Fla. Stat. (1997). The crime in this case occurred February 21, 1999; thus, the Code provisions apply.”
Maddox v. State, 760 So. 2d 89 (Fla. 2000). · cites it 2× “0026, Florida Statutes (1997)); see also § 921.0027, Fla. Stat. (1999). Under this statute, the trial judge must calculate the "lowest permissible sentence.”
Williamson v. State, 852 So. 2d 880 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003). · cites it 3× “Because a scheme to defraud is a true continuing offense, Williamson’s sentence is controlled by section 921.0027, Florida Statutes (2000), which applies to felonies committed on or after October 1, 1998, 1 and provides that felonies with continuing dates of enterprise are to be…”
Knarich v. State, 932 So. 2d 257 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005). · cites it 2× “; see also § 921.0027, Fla. Stat. (1997). [2] The window period for challenging a guidelines sentence as invalid due to the amendments made by chapter 95-184, Laws of Florida, closed on May 24, 1997.”
Maddox v. State, 760 So. 2d 89 (Fla. 2000). · cites it 2× “0026, Florida Statutes (1997)); see also § 921.0027, Fla. Stat. (1999). Under this statute, the trial judge must calculate the "lowest permissible sentence.”
Desmoke v. State, 912 So. 2d 1284 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005). · cites it 2× “2d DCA 2003) (holding that “[b]e-cause a scheme to defraud is a true continuing offense, Williamson’s sentence is controlled by section 921.0027, Florida Statutes (2000), which applies to felonies committed on or after October 1,1998, and provides that felonies with continuing…”
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