Case Name: Larry D. MULLINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2007-10-24
Citations: 970 So. 2d 376
Docket Number: No. 3D05-1068
Parties: Larry D. MULLINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before RAMIREZ and SHEPHERD, JJ. and FLETCHER, Senior Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 970
Pages: 376–379

Head Matter:
Larry D. MULLINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 3D05-1068.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Oct. 24, 2007.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Marti Rothenberg, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Robin F. Hazel, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before RAMIREZ and SHEPHERD, JJ. and FLETCHER, Senior Judge.

Opinion:
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM.
Upon consideration of appellant Larry D. Mullins' motion for rehearing, we grant the motion for rehearing, withdraw this Court's July 19, 2006 opinion and substitute the following revised opinion in its stead.
Mullins appeals his sentence as illegal pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). We have jurisdiction. Fla. R.App. P. 9.140(b)(1)(D). Mullins was convicted of a single count of battery on a law enforcement officer, a third degree felony. § 784.07(2)(b), Fla. Stat. (2001) (reclassifying battery upon a law enforcement officer from a misdemeanor to a felony of the third degree). The trial court orally pronounced an enhanced sentence of fifteen years with a ten-year minimum mandatory as a violent career criminal pursuant to Section 775.084(4)(d)3, Florida Statutes (2001), as well as a concurrent ten-year sentence as a habitual violent felony offender. § 775.084(4)(b)3, Fla. Stat. (2001).
The sentencing order contains a provision for habitual felony offender and violent career criminal. However, the written sentence is unclear as to whether Mullins was only sentenced to fifteen years with a ten-year minimum mandatory pursuant to the violent career criminal enhancement to the underlying felony. Under the specification section of the violent career criminal offense, "10 years minimum mandatory" appears. Under the specification section of the habitual felony offender offense, "_" appears. This is a clear violation of Clines v. State, 912 So.2d 550 (Fla.2005), where the Florida Supreme Court stated that only one recidivist category may be applied to any given criminal sentence. The sentence as written was thus incorrect. Id. at 560.
We therefore reverse and remand to the trial court for resentencing with directions to correct the order as previously written, by deleting the habitual felony offender designation. This will make it clear that Mullins was only sentenced as a violent career criminal.
Reversed and remanded.
RAMIREZ, J. and FLETCHER, Senior Judge, concur.
. It appears that the trial court in its oral sentence treated Mullins' habitual violent felony offender classification as an independent crime, rather than as an enhancement on any criminal charge, and therefore sentenced him twice for the same offense. We agree that the oral pronouncement was in error.