Court Opinion

ID: 4257053
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-03-22 14:09:42.968066+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:45:07.200776
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D16-5747
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ANTONIO GIBBONS,

    Appellant,

    v.

STATE OF FLORIDA,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County.
Robert R. Wheeler, Judge.

                         March 22, 2018

PER CURIAM.

     Appellant, Antonio Gibbons, contends the trial court erred in
denying his motion for judgment of acquittal as to the count of
possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He has not challenged
his remaining convictions. Appellant asserts the State failed, due
to insufficient evidence of his prior convictions, to satisfy its
burden of presenting a prima facie case on the felon-in-possession
count. Upon consideration of the State’s confession of error, we
reverse and remand. The trial court is instructed to vacate the
judgment and sentence on the conviction for possession of a
firearm by a convicted felon, and to resentence consistent with a
new scoresheet.

    REVERSED, and REMANDED with instructions.

JAY, WINSOR, and M.K. THOMAS, JJ., concur.
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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Candice K. Brower, Regional Counsel, and Melissa J. Ford,
Assistant Conflict Counsel, for the Office of Criminal Conflict and
Civil Regional Counsel, Region One, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Samuel B. Steinberg,
Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

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