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573 So. 2d 1014

Docket No. 90-713.

Steiner v. State

Grover Floyd STEINER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 31, 1991.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1991-01-31

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1992

3 state decisions

Relies on State v. Jimeno · 557 So. 2d 899 - Caracciolo v. State · 562 So. 2d 343 - Florida Bar re: Amendment to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar-Rule 1-7.3

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Decided 1991-01-31

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¶1John G. Stinson, Sp. Public Defender, Gainesville, for appellant.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Virlindia Doss, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

¶3WOLF, Judge.

¶4Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence used to prove he had previously been adjudged guilty of a felony in Indiana. He also challenges the constitutionality of section 775.084, Florida Statutes (Supp. 1988), the habitual violent felony offender statute. Appellant admitted to three prior felony convictions in the state of Florida, but he vigorously denied the alleged felony which was to have occurred in Indiana.

¶5Because the Florida convictions, which the appellant admits, are sufficient to justify him being habitualized under the felony offender statute, we need not reach the issue of whether or not the evidence in establishing the Indiana felony was sufficient. *1015See Robinson v. State,551 So.2d 1240 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989) rev. denied,562 So.2d 347 (Fla. 1989) (any error in failing to corroborate a 1986 conviction was harmless given appellant's extensive record of felony convictions). We also find no merit in the appellant's attacks on the constitutionality of the habitual violent felony offender statute. Arnold v. State,566 So.2d 37 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1990); Johnson v. State,564 So.2d 1174 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990); King v. State,557 So.2d 899 (Fla. 5th DCA), rev. denied,564 So.2d 1086 (Fla. 1990).

¶6AFFIRMED.

¶7SMITH and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.

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