District Court of Appeal of Florida April 1, 1997, No. 96-1772 (Simpkins v. State)

PER CURIAM.

A jury convicted Shamiel Simpkins (Simp-kins) of robbery with a firearm. Simpkins committed this crime between October 21 and 22, 1995, in Duval County. Simpkins then was eighteen.1 The trial judge, believing that the use of a firearm limited his youthful-offender sentencing options, sentenced Simpkins to prison for five and one-half years, followed by community control for one year.