Case Name: Victor PEEL, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2008-01-02
Citations: 970 So. 2d 946
Docket Number: No. 4D06-3119
Parties: Victor PEEL, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: WARNER, FARMER and GROSS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 970
Pages: 946–947

Head Matter:
Victor PEEL, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 4D06-3119.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Jan. 2, 2008.
Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Marcy K. Allen, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jeanine M. Germanowicz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
For the third degree felony of burglary of a structure, Victor Peel, Jr. was sen tenced as a habitual felony offender to 10 years in prison. On a grand theft charge, he was sentenced as a habitual offender to five years consecutive to the sentence on the burglary charge. Peel filed a motion to correct sentencing error, which was considered denied because the trial court did not rule on the motion. See Fla. R.Crim. P. 3.800(b)(1)(B). This sentence is contrary to Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1993); see also Fuller v. State, 867 So.2d 469 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004) (holding that under Hale, a non-habitual offender sentence cannot run consecutively to an habitual offender sentence that exceeded the statutory maximum for the degree of felony subject to enhanced sentencing); Kiedrowski v. State, 876 So.2d 692, 693 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004) (same). We remand to the circuit court for appellant to be resentenced to a five-year term concurrent with the sentence on the burglary charge.
WARNER, FARMER and GROSS, JJ., concur.