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477 So. 2d 1081

477 So.2d 1081

10 Fla.L.Weekly 2442

Popolo v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 31, 1985

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1985-10-31

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1991

1 district · 1 state decisions

Relies on Snowden v. State · 476 So. 2d 191 - State v. Snowden

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Decided 1985-10-31

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DAUKSCH, Judge.

¶1This is an appeal from a sentence. Appellant was convicted of lewd and lascivious assault and was given an enhanced penalty as an habitual felony offender. § 775.084, Fla.Stat. (1983). Because the felony for which appellant was sentenced was committed before the conviction used for enhancement purposes we do not deem appellant qualified for enhancement. As was said in Snowden v. State, 449 So.2d 332 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984), quashed on other grounds in State v. Snowden, 476 So.2d 191 (Fla.1985) “for a felony conviction to serve as a qualifying offense for purposes of enhanced sentencing under section 775.-084, the prior felony conviction must have occurred before, (and within five years of) the commission of the crime for which defendant is being sentenced.”

¶2The state took the Snowden case to the supreme court, it reviewed it and quashed the portion dealing with double jeopardy and said nothing regarding the enhanced penalty portion of our Snowden opinion. That is tacit approval.

¶3The sentence is reversed and this cause remanded for resentencing.

¶4REVERSED and REMANDED.

SHARP and COWART, JJ., concur.
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