Case Name: Grady ROBINSON a/k/a Graddy Robbinson, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2017-11-08
Citations: 233 So. 3d 1163
Docket Number: No. 3D17-0759
Parties: Grady ROBINSON a/k/a Graddy Robbinson, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before LOGUE, SCALES and LUCK, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 233
Pages: 1163–1163

Head Matter:
Grady ROBINSON a/k/a Graddy Robbinson, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D17-0759
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Opinion filed November 8, 2017
Grady Robinson a/k/a Graddy Robbin-son, in proper person.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, for appellee.
Before LOGUE, SCALES and LUCK, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Defendant Grady Robinson appeals the trial court's order denying his motion to correct illegal sentence. Robinson contends his habitual felony offender sentence was illegal because he was convicted of only one prior non-sequential felony. See § 775.084(l)(a), Fla. Stat. (1994) (to qualify as an "habitual felony offender," the defendant must have "been convicted of any combination of two or more felonies in this state or other qualified offenses," "[t]he felony for which the defendant is to be sentenced was committed within 5 years of the date of the conviction of the last prior felony or other qualified; offense of which he was convicted," and the "felony for which the defendant is to be sentenced, and one of the two prior felony convictions, is not a violation of § 893.13 relating to the purchase or the possession of a controlled substance").
We affirm for the reasons explained in the trial court's detailed order. At Robinson's 1995 sentencing hearing in this case, the state introduced fourteen certified convictions showing that in the years before this most recent burglary conviction, he had been convicted of, and sentenced for (among other crimes): battery on a law enforcement officer in 1993; false- imprisonment and selling controlled' substances in 1992; arson in 1992; burglary in 1989; burglary in 1988; another burglary in 1988; burglary in 1987; and burglary and grand theft in 1985. These -certified convictions attached to the trial court's order conclusively refute Robinson's claim that he was illegally sentenced as an habitual felony offender. See McBride v. State, 665 So.2d 329, 330 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995) ("[T]he defendant now challenges his sentences, arguing that he was not eligible for. habitual offender status because,.at the .time of the December . 3, 1990 sentencing, he had only one prior felony conviction. The record before us clearly, refutes this .argument. In this regard, the attachments to the trial.court's order denying the defendant's 3.800 motion evidence three prior felony judgments.-... Since defendant had three prior felony convictions, he was properly sentenced as an habitual offender.").
Affirmed.