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782 So. 2d 416

Docket No. 2D99-3558.

Green v. State

Carlos GREEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided February 16, 2001.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2001-02-16

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 2008

3 state decisions

Relies on Grant v. State · State v. Cotton

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Decided 2001-02-16

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¶1James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Robert D. Rosen, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Timothy A. Freeland, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

¶3BLUE, Acting Chief Judge.

¶4Carlos Green was sentenced to concurrent sentences as a habitual felony offender and as a prison releasee reoffender following his conviction for manslaughter. We reject Green's challenges to his conviction. We also reject his constitutional challenges to his sentence and to the Prison Releasee Reoffender Punishment Act, section 775.082(8), Florida Statutes (1997). See Grant v. State, 770 So.2d 655 (Fla. 2000); State v. Cotton, 769 So.2d 345 (Fla. 2000). Because the court was not authorized to impose concurrent sentences as a habitual felony offender and as a prison releasee reoffender, we strike the habitual offender designation. See Grant, 770 So.2d at 659.

¶5Conviction affirmed; prison releasee reoffender sentence affirmed; habitual offender designation stricken.

¶6GREEN and SALCINES, JJ., concur.

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