Court Opinion

ID: 4863577
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-26 02:01:29.052807+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:12:04.048204
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CONFESSION OF ERROR

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
While defendant’s convictions are affirmed, the defendant argues, the State concedes,' and we agree, that the concurrent sentences imposed below upon him as a (properly designated) Prison Releasee Reoffender, § 775.082, Fla. Stat. (2008), of thirty years for strong arm robbery, a second degree felony, and ten years for tampering with a witness, a third degree felony, are unlawfully excessive. The trial court’s apparent reliance on the habitual felony offender statute which would permit this sentence, § 775.084, Fla. Stat. (2008), was, as all agree, unjustified because, although the defendant may have qualified for that status, the trial court did not so declare him or otherwise comply with the requirements of the statute.
Therefore the sentences are vacated and the cause remanded for resentencing without regard to the habitual felony offender statute.
Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded.