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Ronald WRIGHT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 1D98-1141.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Sept. 6, 2000.
    Nancy Daniels, Public Defender, and Carl S. McGinnes, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Charmaine M. Millsaps, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appel-lee.
   PER CURIAM.

Following his conviction for robbery with a firearm, the appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment as a prison releasee reoffender and as a habitual felony offender. We reject the appellant’s constitutional challenges to the Prison Re-leasee Reoffender Punishment Act, section 775.082(8), Florida Statutes (1997). See State v. Cotton, 25 Fla. L. Weekly S463, — So.2d -, 2000 WL 766521 (Fla. June 15, 2000). But we agree with his further argument that, in light of our decision in Walls v. State, 765 So.2d 733 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000), it was improper to impose appellant’s life sentence under both the habitual felony offender statute and the prison releasee reoffender statute. Accordingly, we strike the habitual felony offender designation.

AFFIRMED in part and REVERSED in part.

ALLEN, LAWRENCE and BENTON, JJ„ CONCUR.