Case ID: so2d_910/html/0930-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Kurt DICKSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 1D02-0325.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Sept. 19, 2005.
    Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, M.J. Lord, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.
    Charlie Crist, Attorney General; Elizabeth F. Duffy, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

In this direct criminal appeal, the appellant challenges his convictions and sentences for various criminal offenses. We affirm the appellant’s convictions, but we vacate his sentences.

Reflecting his understandable frustration with insensitive and ill-advised remarks made by the appellant prior to his sentencing, the trial judge unfortunately made remarks that placed his impartiality in doubt. In light of these remarks, the appellant’s sentences must be vacated.

The appellant’s convictions are affirmed, his sentences are vacated, and this case is remanded for resentencing before a different judge.

ERVIN, ALLEN and POLSTON, JJ., concur.