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827 So. 2d 1102

Docket No. 2D01-4900.

Garcia v. State

Lionardo GARCIA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 16, 2002.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 2002-10-16

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 2005

3 state decisions

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Decided 2002-10-16

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¶1Lionardo Garcia, pro se.

¶2Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ronald Napolitano, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.

¶3ALTENBERND, Judge.

¶4Lionardo Garcia pleaded guilty to committing a lewd and lascivious act pursuant to section 800.04(2), Florida Statutes (1999). The trial court sentenced Mr. Garcia to five years' imprisonment. At the plea hearing, the court made no mention of designating Mr. Garcia a sexual predator. After Mr. Garcia was incarcerated, the Department of Corrections sent a letter to the court indicating that Mr. Garcia might be eligible for a sexual predator designation. A hearing was held on October 18, 2001, in which Mr. Garcia was incorrectly designated as a sexual predator. Mr. Garcia appeals the order designating him as a sexual predator.

¶5Under section 775.21(4)(c)(1)(c), Florida Statutes (Supp.1998), where the violation of section 800.04(02) is a second-degree felony, in order for the sexual predator designation to apply, the defendant must have a previous conviction with or without an adjudication of certain enumerated offenses. The State admits that Garcia does not have any prior convictions and that it was reversible error to designate him as a sexual predator. We reverse and remand to the trial court to remove the sexual predator designation.

¶6Reversed and remanded.

¶7SALCINES and STRINGER, JJ., Concur.

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