Opinion ID: 1847714
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Heading: pierce

Text: Only petitioner's convictions for two counts of resisting an officer in the execution of a legal duty under section 843.01 are at issue in this proceeding. In a situation similar to that presented here, the defendant in Pierce was charged with three counts of resisting an officer predicated on one episode of an attempted arrest during which he resisted three officers. 681 So.2d at 873. The First District held that only one conviction was permitted in connection with this single episode, relying upon this Court's decision in State v. Watts, 462 So.2d 813 (Fla.1985). Pierce, 681 So.2d at 874. Citing Watts, the court in Pierce held that because section 843.01 prohibits resisting any officer, as opposed to an officer, and the three counts ... [were] predicated on one incident during which the appellant resisted or opposed three officers, only one conviction [was] permitted. Id.