STATE v. HARRIS

No. 97-3253.

718 So.2d 933 (1998)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. James Stanley HARRIS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Roberta G. Mandel, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Suzanne M. Froix, Assistant Public Defender, for appellee.

Before JORGENSON, COPE and GERSTEN, JJ.


COPE, Judge.

The State appeals an order imposing sentence on defendant-appellee James Harris as a violent career criminal. The State contends that the trial court erred in imposing a twenty-five-year mandatory sentence on defendant for a first-degree felony, when the applicable statute calls for a mandatory life term. See § 775.084(4)(c)1., Fla. Stat. (1995). Although the trial court did not have the benefit of it at the time of the sentencing hearing...

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