Case Name: Booker T. ELLIARD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-08-12
Citations: 714 So. 2d 1218
Docket Number: No. 97-2402
Parties: Booker T. ELLIARD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GODERICH and GREEN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 714
Pages: 1218–1219

Head Matter:
Booker T. ELLIARD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 97-2402.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Aug. 12, 1998.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Louis Campbell, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Christine E. Zahralban, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GODERICH and GREEN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We affirm the defendant's conviction finding no reversible error. Additionally, we affirm the defendant's sentence as a violent career criminal, Higgs v. State, 695 So.2d 872 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997), and certify conflict with the Second District's opinion in Thompson v. State, 708 So.2d 315 (Fla. 2d DCA 1998), as we certified in Dupree v. State, 711 So.2d 647 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998).
Affirmed; conflict certified.
SCHWARTZ, C.J., and GODERICH, J., concur.