Leronnie Lee Walton, Petitioner v. State of Florida, Respondent — Canady, J., Concurring

Summary

This dissent would have approved the lower court's result, concluding that the sentencing statute permitted consecutive mandatory-minimum sentences for all of the relevant offenses and that neither the lesser-offense instruction nor the eyewitness-identification ruling required a new trial. It reasoned that the statutory text granted sentencing discretion and that the identification procedure was not unnecessarily suggestive. The dissent also stated that any identification error would have been harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Justice Polston concurred in the dissent.