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Dennis HEGSTROM, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 3D17-2669
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Opinion filed November 7, 2018.
    Carlos J. Martinez, Public Defender, and Jonathan Greenberg, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
    Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Nikole Hiciano, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
    Before LAGOA, SCALES and LINDSEY, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See State v. Michel, 257 So.3d 3, 2018 WL 3613383 (Fla. July 12, 2018) ("[W]e hold that juvenile offenders' sentences of life with the possibility of parole after 25 years do not violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution as delineated by the United States Supreme Court in Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010), Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 132 S.Ct. 2455, 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), and Virginia v. LeBlanc, --- U.S. ----, 137 S.Ct. 1726, 198 L.Ed.2d 186 (2017) ; Romero v. State, 105 So.3d 550, 552-53 (Fla. 1st DCA 2012) ("[A]ppellant was not a juvenile at the time of the offense. He urges us to overlook this fact by focusing on the juvenile nature of his mental and emotional development. He argues, in essence, that he was a juvenile in all but age. ... Graham[ v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010) ] is not controlling for an adult defendant.").