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762 So. 2d 1062

Docket No. 3D99-1939.

Delevaux v. State

Eugene DELEVAUX, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2000-08-02

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2003

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Decided 2000-08-02

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¶1Eugene Delevaux, in proper person.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Lara J. Edelstein, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

¶3Before COPE, SHEVIN and SORONDO, JJ.

¶4

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6We grant rehearing and withdraw the opinion filed February 23, 2000. As the state properly concedes, the trial court improperly sentenced defendant as an habitual violent felony offender based on the predicate offense of strong-arm robbery. The record reveals that the court withheld adjudication on that offense and sentenced defendant to probation. Defendant committed the present crime after termination of probation for the strong-arm robbery offense. Accordingly, the strong-arm robbery offense may not serve as a predicate to qualify defendant as a habitual offender. See § 775.084(2), Fla. Stat. (1993). We, therefore, vacate defendant's sentence and remand for re-sentencing. The trial court may consider re-sentencing defendant as a habitual offender if defendant's prior record would properly support habitualization. Otherwise, defendant must be resentenced under the guidelines.

¶7The order denying the post-conviction relief motion is affirmed in all other respects.

¶8Affirmed in part; reversed and remanded.

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