CAPERS v. STATE

No. 89-3004.

567 So.2d 1079 (1990)

John William CAPERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 17, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Donna Levine, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and John M. Koenig, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a sentence containing a determination that appellant, John William Capers, is an habitual, violent felony offender. At the sentencing hearing appellant questioned the date of an earlier conviction which was the predicate for a finding of habitual offender. When a defendant attacks the truth of the statements relied upon to impose habitual offender status, the state is required to produce corroborating evidence. Lewis v. State...

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