Case Name: Wendell BEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-06-18
Citations: 695 So. 2d 1268
Docket Number: No. 96-2381
Parties: Wendell BEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: GLICKSTEIN and GROSS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 695
Pages: 1268–1269

Head Matter:
Wendell BEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 96-2381.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
June 18, 1997.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Mallorye G. Cunningham, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for ap-pellee.

Opinion:
PARIENTE, Judge.
We are compelled to reverse defendant's habitual offender sentence based on the authority of King v. State, 681 So.2d 1136 (Fla.1996). The trial court did not have the benefit of King when it imposed a habitual offender sentence after finding defendant violated his probation.
Just as in King, the trial court here imposed a guidelines sentence at the time of the original sentencing, declining the state's request to sentence defendant as a habitual felony offender. After serving the imprisonment portion of his sentence, defendant violated his probation. Because defendant was not originally sentenced as a habitual offender, the trial court could not sentence him as a habitual offender upon revocation of probation. Id. at 1140.
Accordingly, the sentence in this case is vacated and the cause remanded for the trial court to impose a sentence within the guidelines.
GLICKSTEIN and GROSS, JJ., concur.