EDISON v. STATE

No. 2D01-4177.

848 So.2d 498 (2003)

Alexander EDISON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Carol J.Y. Wilson, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Dale E. Tarpley, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


STRINGER, Judge.

Alexander Edison seeks review of his habitual felony offender ("HFO") sentence for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. We reverse Edison's HFO sentence because the State failed to prove that Edison's qualifying convictions were sequentially and separately obtained.

In order to qualify as a prior felony for HFO sentencing, the prior felony conviction must have been sentenced separately from the current offense and any other prior...

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