SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
On this appeal from the denial of the defendant's 3.800 motion, we find that the trial judge improperly imposed a "vindictive" sentence of thirty years minimum mandatory as a violent career criminal despite his own explicit offer of fifteen years if the defendant pled guilty to this (and another) offense before trial. As required, we reverse for resentencing of the defendant before a different judge.
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