Case Name: Isaiah SERNA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2016-07-20
Citations: 204 So.3d 489
Docket Number: Nos. 4D15-1035, 4D15-1036
Parties: Isaiah SERNA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: CIKLIN, C.J., WARNER and GERBER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 204
Pages: 489–489

Head Matter:
Isaiah SERNA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Nos. 4D15-1035, 4D15-1036.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
July 20, 2016.
Cherry Grant and Margaret Good-Earnest of Good Earnest Law, P.A., Lake Worth, for appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jessenia J. Concepcion, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for-appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. Sentencing by a successor judge was not objected-to and thus not preserved for review. See Madrigal v. State, 683 So.2d 1093, 1097 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996); Davis v. State, 677 So.2d 1366, 1368 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996). Further, defense counsel waived the preparation of a pre-sentence investigation report ("PSI"). See Ortiz v. State, 9 So.3d 774, 776 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009). Appellant contends that , we should treat these issues as ineffective assistance of counsel on the face of the record. We decline to do so, as there could have been strategic reasons for not requesting a PSI and for opting to be sentenced before the successor judge. Our affirmance, however, is without prejudice to filing a motion for postconviction relief.
CIKLIN, C.J., WARNER and GERBER, JJ., concur.
. As to the other matters raised regarding counsel's mistakes as to the applicability of youthful offender sentencing on the original charges and the appropriate statutory máxi-mums, although counsel was wrong, these errors were corrected by the court.