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

Okeshi MCKINNEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 3D17-1703
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Opinion filed September 20, 2017
    
      Okeshi McKinney, in proper person.
    Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, for appellee.
    Before LAGOA, EMAS and SCALES, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Minor v. State, 707 So.2d 1184, 1184 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998) (finding that the defendant’s conviction for the lesser included offense of manslaughter with a firearm was subject to reclassification as a first-degree felony under section 775.087(1) of the Florida Statutes where a firearm was used “[bjecause the use of a weapon or firearm is not an element of the offense of manslaughter”); see also Roberts v. State, 923 So.2d 578, 581 (Fla. 5th DCA 2006) (“[I]t is clear that there is no double jeopardy prohibition against applying a habitual offender enhancement to a felony already reclassified under section 775.087(1).”).