# State v. Lamar

> Supreme Court of Florida · August 24, 1995 · 20 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 431

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7690245

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Florida v. Jimmy Dale LAMAR
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Florida
- **Decided:** August 24, 1995
- **Citations:** 20 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 431; 659 So. 2d 262; 1995 Fla. LEXIS 1389
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Kogan
- **Judges:** Anstead, Grimes, Harding, Kogan, Overton, Shaw, Wells
- **Cited by:** 13 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- observing that “whenever a defendant is being sentenced for both a violation of probation and a new substantive offense, the violation of probation can be scored as either the primary offense or as prior record so long as it gives the most severe sanction. Likewise, the new su…

## Opinion text

KOGAN, Justice,
concurring.
While I continue to view the sentencing scheme advocated by my dissent in Stafford as more reasonable, I concur based on the doctrine of stare decisis.

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