Case Name: Alexander WALKER, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2007-12-21
Citations: 988 So. 2d 6
Docket Number: No. 2D06-4871
Parties: Alexander WALKER, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: YILLANTI and LaROSE, JJ., Concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 988
Pages: 6–10

Head Matter:
Alexander WALKER, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 2D06-4871.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Dec. 21, 2007.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Jean Marie Henne, Special Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jonathan P. Hurley, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Alexander Walker, Jr., appeals a judgment for trafficking in heroin and the resulting sentence of life imprisonment as a habitual felony offender. We affirm without further discussion the conviction. However, we reverse the sentence and remand for resentencing within the Criminal Punishment Code guidelines. See § 921.0022, Fla. Stat. (2003). This case is controlled by this court's opinion in Walker v. State, 964 So.2d 886 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007), a case involving the same defendant. The trial court in this case expressly relied upon the evidence presented at the sentencing hearing in the prior case to impose the habitual felony offender sentence now at issue.
As explained in Walker, at sentencing the State presented certified copies of pri- or convictions to support its contention that Mr. Walker qualified for sentencing as a habitual felony offender. See § 775.084(l)(a), (4)(a), Fla. Stat. (2003). Mr. Walker's name is not particularly unique. In fact, the information recorded his name as "Alexander Walker, Jr." At least one of the judgments proffered by the State involved a defendant with a name other than "Alexander Walker." The State did not present any evidence connecting each of these judgments to Mr. Walker, such as fingerprint comparison testimony, even after Mr. Walker objected that the judgments themselves were insufficient proof that the judgments involved him and therefore permitted sentencing as a habitual felony offender.
As we did in Walker, we reverse the habitual felony offender sentence imposed in this case based upon the same evidence. Because Mr. Walker objected to the sufficiency of this evidence at the original sentencing hearing, on remand Mr. Walker must be sentenced within the guidelines. See Walker, 964 So.2d at 886-87; see also Collins v. State, 893 So.2d 592 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004), review granted, State v. Collins, 929 So.2d 1054 (Fla.2006); Wallace v. State, 835 So.2d 1281 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003); Rivera v. State, 825 So.2d 500 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002); Reynolds v. State, 674 So.2d 180 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996). As we did in both Walker and Collins, we certify that our decision is in direct conflict with the decisions in Wilson v. State, 830 So.2d 244 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002); Cameron v. State, 807 So.2d 746 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002); Morss v. State, 795 So.2d 262 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001); Roberts v. State, 776 So.2d 1034 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001); Rhodes v. State, 704 So.2d 1080 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997); and Brown v. State, 701 So.2d 410 (Fla. 1st DCA 1997). We now add to this list Rich v. State, 814 So.2d 1207 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002).
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for resentencing; conflict certified.
YILLANTI and LaROSE, JJ., Concur.
ALTENBERND, J., Concurs specially with an opinion in which YILLANTI and LaROSE, JJ., Concur.
. The State has sought review of Walker, 964 So.2d 886, in the Florida Supreme Court, and the appeal has been assigned case number SC07-1866. That case has been stayed, however, pending the outcome in Collins v. State, 893 So.2d 592 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004), review granted, State v. Collins, 929 So.2d 1054 (Fla.2006), which presents a similar issue.