Court Opinion

ID: 7781993
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 21:14:07.046852+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:23.073048
License: Public Domain

Normally, it is not appropriate to look to another proceeding to determine whether a defendant was sentenced as a habitual offender. However, the circuit court specifically found that the appellant entered his guilty pleas in case number CC-84-2825 and case number CC-84-2826 "as *Page 889 
part and parcel of the same agreement." Therefore, it was appropriate for the circuit court to look to the proceeding in case number CC-84-2826 to determine that the appellant was sentenced as a habitual offender. In so doing, the circuit court determined that the appellant was sentenced as a habitual offender, and it specifically listed his prior convictions. Because the circuit court has done everything that can be done, under the circumstances of this case, to determine whether the appellant was sentenced as a habitual offender, a remand would be futile. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.
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