Case Title: State of Florida v. Gregory Byron Orr

Citation: 

Docket Number: SC01-1596

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 2002-08-22T00:00:00Z

Document:
Supreme 
Court 
of 
Florida
 
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No. SC01-1596
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STATE OF FLORIDA,
Petitioner,
vs.
GREGORY BYRON ORR,
Respondent.
[August 22, 2002]
QUINCE, J.
We have for review Orr v. State, 793 So. 2d 48 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001), a
decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal which cited its opinion in
McFadden v. State, 773 So. 2d 1237 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000), vacated, No. SC01-377
(Fla. May 14, 2002), as controlling authority.  This Court disapproved McFadden
in Terry v. State, 808 So. 2d 1249 (Fla. 2002).  We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, §
3(b)(3), Fla. Const.
In this case the Fourth District concluded, pursuant to its earlier decision in
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McFadden, that the trial court erred when it sentenced Orr to habitual offender
sentences upon revocation of his probation.  Orr v. State, 793 So. 2d at 50.
However, we disapproved McFadden in Terry, finding that McFadden’s hybrid
split sentence was proper because McFadden was designated a habitual offender as
part of a plea agreement although his initial sentence fell short of a habitual offender
term.  See Terry, 808 So. 2d at 1253.  Because we disapproved McFadden in
Terry, and the decision below expressly relied on McFadden, the decision below is
disapproved to the extent it conflicts with Terry.  
In the instant case, the trial court did not err in imposing habitual offender
sentences after Orr violated probation because Orr entered a negotiated plea
agreeing to habitualization at the time of his original sentencing.  For the reasons
expressed in our recent decision of Terry, we quash the decision below.  
It is so ordered.  
ANSTEAD, C.J., and SHAW, HARDING, WELLS, and LEWIS, JJ, concur.
PARIENTE, J., recused.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND
IF FILED, DETERMINED.
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - 
Direct Conflict
Fourth District - Case Nos.  4D99-4339, 4D99-4340 and 4D99-4341 
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(Broward County)
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Celia A. Terenzio, Assistant Attorney
General, Bureau Chief, and Donna L. Eng, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm
Beach, Florida,
for Petitioner
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Anthony Calvello and Ellen Griffin, Assistant
Public Defenders, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida,
for Respondent