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716 So. 2d 830

Diego v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided August 26, 1998

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1998-08-26

Relies on 630 So. 2d 521 - Hale v. State · 467 So. 2d 994 - Florida Bar v. Napier · 510 So. 2d 909 - Junco v. State

Decided 1998-08-26

¶1ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

PER CURIAM.

¶2We grant the motion for rehearing filed by the appellant, vacate and withdraw the opinion issued in this case on April 8, 1998, and substitute the following opinion for it.

¶3We affirm the trial court’s order denying the appellant’s motion for post-eon-viction relief in all respects except one. We find that the motion should have been granted with respect to appellant’s sentencing error point because it is clear that all of the crimes for which appellant was convicted were a part of one criminal episode. Therefore, the forty-year sentences entered on the armed burglary and kidnapping charges should have been ordered to run concurrently with, rather than consecutive to, the life sentences entered on the armed robbery convictions. See Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1993); State v. Ames, 467 So.2d 994 (Fla.1985); Junco v. State, 510 So.2d 909 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987). By failing to object to the consecutive sentencing under these circumstances and thus preserve the error for review, appellant’s trial attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel and the trial court erred in ruling that this sentencing point was waived because not raised on direct appeal.

¶4The case is reversed and remanded to the trial court with directions to resentenee the appellant in accordance with this opinion.

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