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JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 95-630.

664 So.2d 36 (1995)

Sylvester JOHNSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

December 1, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and S.C. Van Voorhees, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

Sylvester Johnson, Lowell, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Belle B. Turner, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

ANTOON, Judge.

Defendant, Sylvester Johnson, appeals his sentence of forty years as an habitual offender for the offense of attempted first degree murder, a life felony,1 arguing that habitual offender sanctions cannot be imposed as a part of a sentence on a life felony. We agree and reverse.

Defendant was convicted of attempted first degree murder with a deadly weapon, a life felony....

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