NELSON v. STATE

Nos. 97-04456, 97-05293.

724 So.2d 1202 (1998)

Ernie Howard NELSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

November 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernie Howard Nelson, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Dale E. Tarpley, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Ernie H. Nelson challenges his convictions and sentences growing out of his arrest for possessing an open container of a malt liquor beverage during which he spat on one of officers involved. We affirm his convictions without discussion, but reverse his sentence of four years in state prison for battery upon a law enforcement officer.1 Following is the chronology of events which resulted in deprivations of Nelson's constitutional...

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