Court Opinion

ID: 4247722
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-02-23 14:09:45.209274+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:25.158866
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                              FIFTH DISTRICT

                                                  NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
                                                  FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
                                                  DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

ASHLEY BISHOP,

              Appellant,

 v.                                                      Case No. 5D17-2497

STATE OF FLORIDA,

              Appellee.

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Opinion filed February 16, 2018

3.800 Appeal from the Circuit
Court for Orange County,
Leticia J. Marques, Judge.

Ashley Bishop, Sanderson, pro se.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General,
Tallahassee, and Douglas T. Squire,
Assistant Attorney General, Daytona
Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

       Appellant, Ashley Bishop, appeals the summary denial of his motion to correct an

illegal sentence, filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). In his rule

3.800(a) motion, Appellant alleged that the court erred in sentencing him upon a second

violation of probation to twenty years as an habitual felony offender without re-designating

him an HFO.       The State properly concedes error in that the trial court’s record
attachments do not show whether there was a re-designation of Appellant’s HFO status

during Appellant’s 2014 VOP resentencing and/or the current 2016 VOP resentencing.

See State v. Akins, 69 So. 3d 261 (Fla. 2011) (holding that HFO designation must be

restated at each resentencing to be applied); Wighard v. State, 71 So. 3d 170 (Fla. 5th

DCA 2011) (applying Akins and holding that HFO designation was lost when it was not

restated at VOP hearing). Absent an HFO designation, Appellant’s twenty-year sentence

exceeds the statutory maximum for a second-degree felony. Accordingly, we reverse

and remand this cause for the trial court to either attach refuting records or resentence

Appellant to a legal, non-HFO sentence.

      REVERSED and REMANDED.

ORFINGER, TORPY and EVANDER, JJ., concur.

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