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Cathy JUSTICE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 4D03-1557.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    May 26, 2004.
    Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Marcy K Allen, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Appellant was convicted of aggravated battery pursuant to section 784.045, Florida Statutes (1998), a second degree felony, which has a maximum punishment of fifteen years imprisonment. See § 775.082(3)(c), Fla. Stat. (1998). However, the trial court sentenced her to thirty years as a prison releasee reoffender. The state concedes that the court erred, as under the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act the mandatory sentence of a second degree felony is also fifteen years. See § 775.082(8)(a)2.c.

Reversed and remanded for resentenc-ing.

STONE, WARNER and POLEN, JJ., concur.