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

Isaiah SERNA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    Nos. 4D15-1035, 4D15-1036.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    July 20, 2016.
    Cherry Grant and Margaret Good-Earnest of Good Earnest Law, P.A., Lake Worth, for appellant.
    Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jessenia J. Concepcion, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for-appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. Sentencing by a successor judge was not objected-to and thus not preserved for review. See Madrigal v. State, 683 So.2d 1093, 1097 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996); Davis v. State, 677 So.2d 1366, 1368 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996). Further, defense counsel waived the preparation of a pre-sentence investigation report (“PSI”). See Ortiz v. State, 9 So.3d 774, 776 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009). Appellant contends that , we should treat these issues as ineffective assistance of counsel on the face of the record. We decline to do so, as there could have been strategic reasons for not requesting a PSI and for opting to be sentenced before the successor judge. Our affirmance, however, is without prejudice to filing a motion for postconviction relief.

CIKLIN, C.J., WARNER and GERBER, JJ., concur. 
      
      . As to the other matters raised regarding counsel’s mistakes as to the applicability of youthful offender sentencing on the original charges and the appropriate statutory máxi-mums, although counsel was wrong, these errors were corrected by the court.