Supreme Court of Florida

Gerardo Guzman, Petitioner v. State of Florida, Respondent

January 28, 201641 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 21

Summary

The concurrence agrees that the court should discharge jurisdiction because the certified legal question had already been resolved and the petitioner was an adult when he violated probation. It explains that the constitutional rule governing lengthy sentences for juvenile non-homicide offenders does not apply because the relevant probation violation occurred after the petitioner turned eighteen. The concurrence emphasizes that discharging jurisdiction does not decide whether a sixty-year sentence for a juvenile offender is constitutional under that rule.