Case Name: Curtis Leon PERRY, Appellant, v. Harry SINGLETARY, Sec. of Fl. Dept. of Corr., etc., Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-09-03
Citations: 697 So. 2d 1323
Docket Number: No. 97-1670
Parties: Curtis Leon PERRY, Appellant, v. Harry SINGLETARY, Sec. of Fl. Dept. of Corr., etc., Appellee.
Judges: Before GREEN, FLETCHER and SORONDO, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 697
Pages: 1323–1324

Head Matter:
Curtis Leon PERRY, Appellant, v. Harry SINGLETARY, Sec. of Fl. Dept. of Corr., etc., Appellee.
No. 97-1670.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Sept. 3, 1997.
Curtis Leon Perry, in proper person.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Linda S. Katz, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before GREEN, FLETCHER and SORONDO, JJ.

Opinion:
CONFESSION OF ERROR
PER CURIAM.
Upon the state's proper confession of error we grant Curtis Leon Perry's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.
The sole issue raised by the Petitioner is that he received ineffective assistance of appellate counsel due to counsel's failure to raise a double jeopardy claim on direct appeal. The petitioner was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime of attempted second degree murder with a firearm in count 1 of the information. In count 3 he was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the unlawful possession of a firearm while engaged in a criminal offense. The separate convictions were, as petitioner suggests, based on the same act. The petition is therefore meritorious. Cleveland v. State, 587 So.2d 1145 (Fla.1991); Sales v. State, 653 So.2d 456 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995).
We reverse the petitioner's conviction and sentence in count 3 of the information. We remand to the trial court with directions to vacate the judgment of conviction and sentence.
Reversed and remanded with instructions.