IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
FIRST DISTRICT, STATE OF FLORIDA
JOSEPH PATRICK
CHAMBERS, NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
Appellant, DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
v. CASE NO. 1D15-4006
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
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Opinion filed June 1, 2017.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County.
Mark Hulsey, Judge.
Joe Hamrick, Rick Sichta, and Susanne Sichta, of the Sichta Firm, LLC.,
Jacksonville, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Thomas Duffy, Assistant Attorney
General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Joseph Patrick Chambers challenges his convictions and sentences for four
counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of shooting or throwing
deadly missiles. As the State properly concedes, we must reverse the sentences for
attempted second-degree murder because the trial court believed, based on our
prior precedent, that it was required to impose the mandatory minimum sentence of
twenty years for each of the attempted second-degree murder convictions
consecutively pursuant to section 775.087(2)(d), Florida Statutes (the 10-20-Life
statute). The supreme court has since held in Williams v. State, 186 So. 3d 989
(Fla. 2016), that consecutive mandatory minimum terms under the 10–20–Life
statute are permissible, but not mandatory. Accordingly, we remand for
reconsideration of the sentences in light of Williams. In all other respects, we
affirm.
AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part, and REMANDED.
ROWE, RAY, and M.K. THOMAS, JJ., CONCUR.
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