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Willis v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Mar 7, 2001
782 So. 2d 445 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

Opinion

No. 4D99-2948.

Opinion filed March 7, 2001.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; James I. Cohn, Judge; L.T. Case No. 98-26073CF10A.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Marcy K. Allen, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joseph A. Tringali, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


We affirm appellant's convictions for robbery with a firearm and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. As to each crime, appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment as a prison releasee reoffender, pursuant to section 775.082(3)(a)2., Florida Statutes (2000), and to a minimum fifteen year sentence as a violent habitual offender. Both sentences also identified appellant as an habitual felony offender. Grant v. State, 770 So.2d 655, 659 (Fla. 2000), held that the Prison Releasee Reoffender Act ("PRRA") only allows a concurrent habitual felony offender sentence that is greater than the prison releasee reoffender sentence. Since the minimum sentences imposed under the PRRA are for life imprisonment, we reverse that portion of the sentences pertaining to appellant's violent habitual offender and habitual felony offender status. We also remand for correction of the clerical error on the sentencing guidelines worksheet indicating that appellant was a violent career criminal. The trial court never indicated in its oral pronouncements or written sentences that appellant was being sentenced as a violent career criminal.

STEVENSON, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., Concur.


Summaries of

Willis v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Mar 7, 2001
782 So. 2d 445 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)
Case details for

Willis v. State

Case Details

Full title:HENRY WILLIS, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Mar 7, 2001

Citations

782 So. 2d 445 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

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