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548 So. 2d 780

548 So.2d 780

14 Fla.L.Weekly 2057

Butler v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided September 1, 1989

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1989-09-01

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 2007

2 state decisions

Relies on Rozmestor v. State

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Decided 1989-09-01

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PER CURIAM.

¶1Of the several points that appellant raises in this appeal, we find merit in only one point concerning appellant’s sentence.

¶2Appellant was convicted of third degree murder with a firearm and of shooting into a vehicle. He was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for the first count and to ten years for the second count. It was further ordered that two years of the ten year sentence would run consecutive to the fifteen year sentence and the remainder of the ten year sentence would be concurrent. Appellant contends that this is an illegal sentence because it breaks up the ten year sentence and, thus, deprives him of his right to serve his sentence at one stretch, rather than in bits and pieces. We agree. See Rozmestor v. State, 381 So.2d 324 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980).

¶3Accordingly, we affirm the judgments appealed from but reverse the sentences and remand for resentencing in accordance with this opinion.

SCHOONOVER, A.C.J., and HALL and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.
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