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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ben E. SMITH, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 3D18-1327
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Opinion filed January 23, 2019. Rehearing Denied February 18, 2019
    Ben E. Smith, in proper person.
    Ashley Brooke Moody, Attorney General, and Richard L. Polin, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
    Before LINDSEY and HENDON, JJ., and LUCK, Associate Judge.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Connolly v. State, 172 So.3d 893, 904 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015) (en banc) ("Use or possession of a firearm, however, is not an essential element of second degree murder, but rather, it may serve to allow for a reclassification of the second degree murder from a first degree felony to a life felony or as an enhancement of the sentence imposed." (footnote omitted) ).