Kadeem Quaishawn Hart v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledDecember 31, 2020
Docket1D13-1810
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
STATE OF FLORIDA
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Nos. 1D13-1754
1D13-1810
(Consolidated)
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KADEEM QUAISHAWN HART,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County.
Charles W. Arnold, Judge.
December 31, 2020
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA
PER CURIAM.
On December 11, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court quashed
our decision in Hart v. State, 255 So. 3d 921 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018),
and remanded the matter for reconsideration in light of its decision
in Pedroza v. State, 291 So. 3d 541 (Fla. 2020). In Pedroza, the
supreme court held that “a juvenile offender’s sentence does not
implicate Graham [v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48 (2010)], and therefore
Miller [v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012)], unless it meets the
threshold requirement of being a life sentence or the functional
equivalent of a life sentence.” Id. at 548.
Hart was sentenced to an aggregate term of fifty years in
prison. Because he did not receive “a life sentence or the functional
equivalent of a life sentence,” we affirm. See id. at 549 (holding
that Pedroza’s forty-year sentence was “not a life sentence or the
functional equivalent of a life sentence”).
AFFIRMED.
ROBERTS, ROWE, and KELSEY, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of any timely and
authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
9.331.
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Glen P. Gifford, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for
Appellant.
Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Jennifer J. Moore, Assistant
Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
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