Jesus Davila v. State of Florida
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
Date FiledMay 20, 2026
Docket4D2025-1307
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
JESUS DAVILA,
Appellant,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA,
Appellee.
No. 4D2025-1307
[May 20, 2026]
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit,
Broward County; Barbara Duffy, Judge; L.T. Case No.
062022CF010413A88810.
Daniel Eisinger, Public Defender, and Paul Edward Petillo, Assistant
Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melynda Layne
Melear, Senior Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See Guzman v. State, 350 So. 3d 72, 73 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022),
rev. denied, No. SC2022-1597, 2023 WL 3830251 (Fla. June 6, 2023), cert.
denied sub nom. Guzman v. Florida, 144 S. Ct. 2595 (2024); Taylor v. State,
253 So. 3d 631, 632 (Fla. 4th DCA 2018) (holding that “[n]o provision of
the constitution or statute requires a judge to articulate the reasons for
not giving the statutory minimum sentence when the sentence falls
between the statutory minimum and maximum”).
GROSS, MAY and KLINGENSMITH, JJ., concur.
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Not final until disposition of timely-filed motion for rehearing.